The Minister of Information\u00a0and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday inaugurated a 13-member ministerial task force to drive the Digital Switch Over process in the broadcasting sector.
\nMohammed inaugurated the task force at a press briefing in Abuja.
\nThe minister himself is chairing the task force.
\nHe said, \u201cWith the payment approval by FEC, and with 31 states to cover, we have our work cut out for us.
\n\u201cWe have no more excuses for not rapidly rolling out the DSO across the country, hence my decision to set up a 13-member Ministerial Task Force, which I will personally chair, to take charge of the rollout.\u201d
\nHe listed members of the task force and the organisations they represent as :\u00a0 Prof. Armstrong Idachaba (National Broadcasting Commission);\u00a0 Edward Amana (Digiteam); Tunde Adegbola (Digiteam); Sa\u2019a Ibrahim (Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria);\u00a0 Sadeeq Musa (ITS); and Godfrey Ohuabunwa (Set-Top-Box Manufacturers); who is also standing in for the BON Chair.
\nOthers are Lekan Fadolapo (APCON); Aisha\u00a0 Omar (Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning); J. O. Attah (Nigeria Customs Service);\u00a0 Nnanna Ibom (Ministry of Information and Culture); Olusegun Yakubu (Pinnacle Communications); and Joe Mutah (Ministry of Information and Culture), who will serve as Secretary.
\n\u201cThe Ministerial Task Force, saddled with the responsibility of driving the Federal Government\u2019s Digital Switch Over project, is hereby inaugurated.
\n\u201cLadies and gentlemen, I thank you all for agreeing to serve on this Task Force.
\n\u201cThe success of the Digital Switch Over\u00a0 process now rests on your shoulders,\u201d the minister stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Minister of Information\u00a0and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday inaugurated a 13-member ministerial task force to drive the Digital Switch Over process in the broadcasting sector. Mohammed inaugurated the task force at a press briefing in Abuja. The minister himself is chairing the task force. He said, \u201cWith the payment approval by FEC, and with 31 […]<\/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-255241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-icttelecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255241","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=255241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}