The Federal Government
\nhas been urged to review the law on licensing\/ownership of the broadcast media to save the industry from collapse.
\nDr Tom Adaba, former Director General of National Broadcasting Commission, made the call in Jos recently.
\nHe spoke at a Two-day Workshop on Objective and Sensitive Reportage of Conflicts for Editors and Reporters.
\nAdaba also called for a review of licensing of broadcast media in the country by the presidency.
\nHe added that the law on licensing the broadcast media made by the IBB regime in 1983 had become obsolete.
\nHe said the law did not encourage professionalism as the president awarded such licenses as political patronage.
\nAdaba stated that new legislation was needed to back up the law for professionalism in the industry
\n\u201cLicences are awarded to loyalists and not core professionals.\u2019\u2019
\nHe condemned the practice where such loyalists were partisan in their media contents.
\n\u201cThe Federal Government should take a second look at the law on licensing of the ownership of the broadcast media to save the industry from collapse\u2019\u2019, he said.
\nAdaba also said the military handling of publicity pertaining to the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East was lacking in depth.
\nHe said the Mike Omeri team had never shown a picture of what they tell the press concerning the war on the insurgents. \u201cThis is all wrong.\u2019\u2019
\nHe attributed this to the tension that the military had in dealing with the press and could not trust it with sensitive information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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