We’re set for digital switch over – Nigerian govt 

Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has announced that Nigeria’s long-awaited Digital Switch Over, DSO, task is present afloat acceptable for nationwide launch.

He described it arsenic a large milestone successful President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s betterment docket for the broadcast industry. 

The Minister made this known during a circuit of facilities astatine NIGCOMSAT located astatine the Obasanjo Space Centre, connected Wednesday, alongside the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Charles Ebuebu and the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NIGCOMSAT, Jane Egerton-Idehen.

Describing the improvement arsenic a turning constituent for Nigeria’s broadcasting sector, the Minister said, “I deliberation this is simply a caller dawn for our country. The committedness that President Tinubu made to betterment each sectors is present being seen successful enactment successful the broadcast industry.” 

He noted that aft galore years of delay, Nigeria is yet acceptable to implicit the modulation from analogue to integer broadcasting, adding that the DSO level is scheduled for authoritative commissioning connected June 17, 2026.

Speaking further connected the benefits of the caller integer broadcasting ecosystem, the Minister stated, “This is going to bring a batch of advantages to broadcasters, viewers, and advertisers. If you are viewing immoderate peculiar station, you cognize who is viewi...