Nigeria becoming africa’s biggest free TV platform – Mohammed
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ALHAJI Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture, has said that with the Digital Switch Over (DSO), Nigeria has taken a bold step in building Africa’s biggest and most lucrative free-toair television platform. T
The minister made this statement in Osogbo, at the launch of DSO for Osun State adding that with over 24 million TV households and being the capital of African creativity in music and film, Nigeria would become the capital of television in Africa within the next few years.
Mohammed congratulated the stakeholders on the successful transition from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting and invited all the players to join the unstoppable train.
“The Digital Switch Over (DSO) train, which took off in Jos,
Plateau State in April 2016, has now arrived in Osun State.
“From Plateau, the train has traversed the Federal Capital Territory, Kwara, Kaduna and Enugu states.
“The State of Osun, therefore, becomes the sixth and the latest state in which we have launched the DSO “I congratulate the people of this state, who will now have access to more than 30 digital channels, with crystal clear pictures and Hi Fidelity audio, once they procure our most affordable Set Top Box,” he said.