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- 15 Dec 2017
NCC Receives CEO NTA Enterprises
Mr. Maxwell Oko, Managing Director of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Enterprises has urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government to emulate the Nigerian Communications…
- 14 Dec 2017
CEO NTA Enterprises Asks Other MDAs to Emulate NCC, Solicits Partnership
By peter oluka Mr. Maxwell Oko, the managing director of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Enterprises, has urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government to emulate the Nigerian…
- 9 Aug 2020
Lai Mohammed’s Action to Enforce New NBC Code Suspicious- Iredia, Ex NTA DG
Professor Tony Iredia, former director-general of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), has said Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and culture must leave the National Broadcasting…
- 16 Oct 2020
WAP TV Inks Deal with NTA to Return The Village Headmaster on TV
The Village Headmaster, Nigeria’s longest ran television drama series, is set to return on TV as the management of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Wale Adenuga Productions (WAP) signed a…
- 21 Dec 2009
Reps Query NTA over Under 17 World Cup Contract
Musa Usman Magawatta, director general, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), has come under the hammer of federal lawmakers who have queried the DG for allegedly ignoring due process in awarding…
- 12 Apr 2017
Osun Based Firm Secures Broadcast Set-Top Boxes Contract
One of the emerging industrial concerns in Osun, the RLG/Adulawo Technology Company has secured a multi-billion Naira contract for the production of terrestrial broadcast set top boxes from the…
- 2 Sept 2025
Tinubu Recalls Dembos as DG NTA, Nullifies Fresh Appointments
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ordered the reinstatement of Mr Salihu Abdullahi Dembos as director-general, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The directive was contained in a statement…
- 11 Feb 2020
NTA Acquires Rights to Broadcast English Premier League Matches
Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has acquired sub-licensed rights to broadcast at least one English Premier League fixture per match week over the course of the 2019/2022 rights cycle.. According…
- 18 Feb 2021
NTA to Display NSE Ticker Tape Across Its Network
Investors and viewers of the Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) will now be able to see the daily price information of securities listed on The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on the various…
- 20 May 2017
NITDA Boosts NTA’s Operations with Digital Capacity Building Information Centre
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) donates a Digital Capacity Building Centre (DCBC) to Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) at their Corporate Headquarters in Abuja. This was…
- 3 Apr 2013
Reps say NTA, Others can Leverage on NigComSat for Digital Broadcasting
Bubar Jubrin, House Committee chairman, Information & National Orientation, has said that Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Voice of Nigeria (VON) are in position to leverage the…
- 14 Apr 2014
NRLC, NTA Join Forces to Fight Lottery Fraud
National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC) has solicited for the assistance of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) towards monitoring the fraudulent activities of the illegal and…
- 13 May 2022
FRCN, NTA, DAAR, ASO Radio/TV Endorse The Nigerian Broadcasting Awards
Four major broadcast media establishments have endorsed The Nigerian Broadcasting Awards (TNBA) scheduled to hold in October. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the Awards…
- 26 May 2016
FG Appoints New CEOs for NTA, NAN, NBC, Others
Federal Government has appointed new chief executives officers for the information-related parastatals in the Ministry of Information and Culture. The new appointees, whose appointments are with…
- 16 Jun 2026
Stakeholders Endorse Hybrid Model for Nigeria’s Digital Switch
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s broadcasting industry have endorsed a hybrid digital broadcasting model that combines Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite services, and…
- 13 May 2026
FG to Launch Nationwide Free Digital TV Platform June 17
Federal government, yesterday, said that it will now launch the so-called FreeTV, with over 100 channels for news, sports, education, entertainment and children’s programming in multiple Nigerian…
- 19 Oct 2023
President Tinubu Sacks NBC DG, NAN CEO, Others
President Bola Tinubu has sacked the heads of some government agencies under the Ministry of Information. Ajuri Ngelali, Special Adviser to the President on Media Publicity, announced this in a…
- 10 Jun 2020
NIMC Says Over 100m Nigerians Have no Form of ID
Over 100 million Nigerians have no identity, according to Mr Aliyu Aziz, director-general, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). Aziz, who made the disclosure during a zoom meeting with…
- 18 May 2021
NBC set June for Kano Digital Switchover Take off with 30 TV Stations
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has said that the Kano digital switchover will commence in June, with 30 television stations in the state Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, acting director general of…
- 4 Mar 2016
FG Commits to 2017 Deadline for Digital Switch Over
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has assured of the Federal Government's commitment to meeting the June 2017 deadline for the country's Digital Switch Over (DSO) in…
- 23 Feb 2023
National Lottery Nigeria Launches Operations, to Enrich Millions of Nigerians
Millions of Nigerians will begin winning incredible life-changing prizes with the commencement of operations by the National Lottery of Nigeria (NLN). Apart from lifting Nigerians from the morass of…
- 23 Jul 2021
NTA Gets Rights to Broadcast Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Integral, Nigeria’s leading sports marketing and management company, has secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 on free-to-air television. As a result, the company…
- 15 Feb 2016
FG Sacks Mba, NBC DG, 5 Others
Federal government today sacked the heads of the six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture, directing them to hand over to the most senior officials in their…
- 17 Feb 2016
Mba, Sacked NBC DG, Others were PDP Saboteurs- FG
Chief John Odigie- Oyegun, national chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday said the sacked heads of government agencies and parastatals were saboteurs. The APC chairman, who led some…
- 16 Nov 2018
ICPC Quizzes Kawu, NBC Boss, Contractor over N2.5Bn DSO Fraud
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commissio (ICPC), is investigating the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), over the misapplication of N2.5 billion seed grant released to…
- 23 Apr 2012
IP: Secret Ingredient to Economic Growth -HP Conference
A HP roundtable discussion has emphasized the vital role of intellectual property (IP) as a catalyst for economic, social and cultural prosperity as diverse panel urges consumers to respect…
- 10 Feb 2018
MultiChoice in Trouble as FG Issues Quit Notice to DSTv, Others
The Federal Government may have notified the management of MultiChoice DSTV/GOTV that their operations, in Nigeria, will come to an end in 2019 as their license expires June next year. …
- 16 Oct 2019
NCC Warns Cable Operators Against Broadcast Piracy
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has indicated its commitment to intensify its enforcement of broadcast rights in the country just as it tasked licensed cable operators in Nigeria to respect…
- 21 Mar 2016
Nigeria, Al Jazeera to Collaborate in Capacity Building for Journalists
Nigeria and the Doha-based international broadcaster Al Jazeera are to collaborate in the area of capacity building for journalists in the government-owned media organizations, especially the…
- 22 Aug 2024
FG Approves N10Bn to Boost Digital Switch-over
President Bola Tinubu has approved a grant of N10 billion for the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to embark on a transformative journey to achieve the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) dividends for…