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Broadcasting in search of patriot to clean up its failures
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By Okoh Aihe
THIS is Monday morning. At about the time of writing this material, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is organising a broadcast industry stakeholders meeting in Lagos to discuss the readiness of the Lagos zone to welcome the launch of the Digital Switchover, DSO. There is a reason Lagos has been picked to feature in the next phase of the programme and I think that has to be duly recognised. Commerce.
While this meeting provides an easy pick for a weekly tech column, I will want to observe that there are residual issues that deserve some attention in order to properly situate some unfolding events. But first, a little complaint. Monday is becoming a challenging day for me, because on that day every week, I have to search for words to sweeten the situation in the country, just to make some people feel good and reduce someone’s bloo
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The broadcast and the telecommunications industries are going through terrible patches in the hands of those who are supposed to be keepers of the temple. At separate fora last week appointees of government spoke about the sectors in a manifest display of how very ignorant they are about the sectors they should be superintending. Separately they sowed hope, they sowed fear and they also sowed vapor; however, they are in very clear deficit of hope but have fear and vapor in abundant supply.
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The role of the Minister in any deregulated sector, like broadcasting and telecommunications, is to curate policies that can impact on the health of the sector. There is no provision for direct intervention or for pushing directives like a fellow maintaining lordship over his family, that is, for those who exercise almightiness over their homes and believe the sun sets at their command. But the Nigerian situation is not normal and one would not expect what happens in other climes to
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