Chinese media group,
\nStarTimes, says it will establish a manufacturing plant in Nigeria to produce decoders and television sets.
\nThe Chairman of the company, Mr Xinxing Pang, disclosed this on Monday when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, visited StarTimes headquarters in Beijing, China.
\nA statement issued on the visit by\u00a0 the Special Adviser to the Minister, Mr Segun Adeyemi,quoted Pang as saying that the manufacturing plant was part of StarTimes\u2019 planned expansion project in Nigeria.
\nPang, according to the statement, said his company was ready to invest more in Nigeria, especially in the area of content provision and the building of state-of-the-art studios.
\nHe described the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) as his company\u2019s most important partner in Africa.
\nPang also said that his company, established in 1988, operated in more than 30 African countries, with more than 7 million digital television subscribers.
\nAccording to the statement, the minister acknowledged that the partnership between StarTimes and NTA had revolutionised television viewing in Nigeria.
\n\u201cWe are very proud of our association with you, especially the partnership between you and the NTA,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nMohammed expressed gratitude to Pang over his stated plans to expand its operations in Nigeria.
\nHe congratulated the company for the \u201cgiant strides\u2019\u2019 it had made in under 30 years of its existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chinese media group, StarTimes, says it will establish a manufacturing plant in Nigeria to produce decoders and television sets. The Chairman of the company, Mr Xinxing Pang, disclosed this on Monday when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, visited StarTimes headquarters in Beijing, China. A statement issued on the visit by\u00a0 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}