Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr Lai Mohammed, says Nigeria must meet the July 2017 deadline set for digital switchover from analogue broadcasting.
He said this while inaugurating a ministerial task force charged with the responsibility to ensure that the third deadline for the switchover is met.
He said that the progress made by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which has managed the process of the digital switchover through the years must be built upon and concluded this time round.
The Minister warned that Nigeria’s failure to meet the deadline will cause economic losses for the country and create a gap in the telecommunication and broadcast sector, as well as violate an international treaty on digitization.
