Sources at the NBC said Kawu, who has been in the forefront of ensuring a smooth transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in the country, has had to contend with forces within the agency to achieve his dreams
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The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that 420,000 boxes were given out to the public for free use that would last one year, at the onset of the switch-over on April 30, 2016
They hinged their argument on the 2012 white paper on the digital switchover in television broadcasting, which prohibits existing broadcasters from signal carriage
The minister disclosed this on Wednesday in Cannes, France, after a tour of stands of Nigerians and other TV and online content developers at the ongoing 2017 MIPTV
Strikingly, for the first time in the history of alleged corruption cases brought up by the Commission, the EFCC has been unable in the charges leveled against Mba to trace any money to Mba or establish any ground on which Mba may have directly benefited by the transactions or indeed even by its own standards of money laundering
Alhaji Mohammed stated this in Abuja on Wednesday while addressing journalists on the roll-out of the pilot phase of the Digital Switch Over in Jos, Plateau State on Saturday