Nigeria’ll Keep Up With The World Digital Broadcasting Says FG

Even with the unprecedented hunger hitting Nigerians below the belt, the Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that the country must keep up with the rest of the world in digital broadcasting. Broadcast-transmitter

To this end, it has directed all its relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to key into the process to enable Nigeria beat the deadline given by the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, that all countries should migrate on or before June 2017. The development was the singular item discussed and approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, yesterday, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall that over N34 billion had been earmarked for the programme to procure digital spectrum necessary for the migration policy. Already, some set-up boxes had been under experiment in Jos, Plateau State, since April 2016, as part of its pilot scheme towards the digitalisation process. Briefing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said outside the swearing in of four special advisers, including one for the economy and a permanent secretary, the digital broadcasting dominated the meeting. He said: “The main highlights of today’s council meeting are the swearing in of the four special advisers and permanent secretary for foreign affairs, after which only one single council memo was considered and that council memo was a note in respect of an update from my ministry in the process of migrating from analogue to digital broadcasting. Digitalization in the face of hunger “Yes, Nigeria might be going through a very difficult time, it doesn’t mean that we are going to be cut off from the rest of the world. “20 years ago, Ethiopia had a famine that ravaged the whole country, they have risen from the ashes of that famine to become one of the strongest economies of the world. Source: Vanguard.