Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo reiterates the federal government wish to make Nigeria the leader in the African digital TV market during the launch of the new TV station Hi-Impact TV in Lagos. Hi-Impact TV is a 24-hour station transmitting live from the heart of Hi-Impact Planet Amusement Park as from the 1st of June [...]
The news has been revealed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Thirty million set-top boxes will be required to complete the digital switch over (DSO) process in Nigeria. During transition, billions of naira (Nigerian currency) will be involved for the set-top boxes (STBs) in the process, according to Mallam Is’haq Modibo Kawu, the Director General of [...]
The National Broadcasting Commission is giving the guarantee to meet the deadline of the Digital Switch Over (DSO) scheduled in June this year. However, many Nigerians are skeptical about this achievement which is to be due in five months. The pilot phase of the DSO actually started in the year 2014 in June, and was [...]
The news has been announced by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. As mentioned by The Guardian, the Minister declared that Set Top Boxes (STBs), the information device that allows the conversion of signals to digital display, will be as from now on, produced locally. Lai also restated that the time limit [...]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says it has received more than 50,000 set-top-boxes to facilitate the migration of analogue TV users in the country to digital, starting from Jos, Plateau State. NBC’s Director of Public Affairs, Mallam Awalu Salihu, who confirmed this to Daily Trust in Abuja, said arrival of the boxes, delivered by SMK Engineering [...]
The Federal Government in Nigeria inaugurated the Ministerial Task Force on Digitisation project to fast track the process of transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in 2017. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, inaugurated the task force in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on the task force [...]
[:en]The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) declared that it licensed only 13 Set-Top Box manufacturers in Nigeria and not 18 as reported in the New Year 2016 message from the director general of the National Broadcasting Commission, Emeka Mba. It was the director of public affairs Awwalu Salihu made this clarification in a statement released by [...]
La National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) a déclaré qu’elle a attribué seulement 13 licences pour la fabrication de décodeurs et non pas 18 comme indiqué dans le message de fin d’année 2016 du directeur général de la National Broadcasting Commission, Emeka Mba. C’est le directeur des affaires publiques Awwalu Salihu qui a fait cette déclaration dans [...]
Nigerian broadcasting regulator, National Broadcasting Commission, has sought applications from interested service providers who intent to operate freeview digital television channel. NBC has kicked off the process of issuing licences for freeview digital television channels. At present, NBC will award provisional licences. NBC has emphasised that channels have to abide by Nigerian broadcasting code to bag the licence. [...]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) feels that the need to carry along about 80% of Nigerians who use free-to-air television platforms can pose as a major deterrent for Nigeria to meet the January 2015 deadline it set for the digital switch-over. “It is a major challenge because we are going into an election year; election [...]
