The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it had succeeded in jamming
\nthe transmission signals of Radio Biafra, which had been operating
\nillegally from an unknown location.<\/p>\n
Dr Yemi Folasade-Esan, the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of
\nInformation, stated this while speaking with State House correspondents
\nafter he had briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the activities of the
\nministry.<\/p>\n
Folasade-Esan said that Buhari was adequately briefed on the activities of
\nthe illegal radio station and the successful blocking of its transmission
\nsignals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also gave a report on (Radio Biafra) that because right now the
\nsignals from Radio Biafra have been jammed. The National Broadcasting
\nCommission (NBC) has successfully jammed that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NBC is also working with security operatives to get those that are
\nbehind that radio because it is an illegal radio.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not licensed by anybody to be on Nigeria\u2019s airwaves.\u201c<\/p>\n
The permanent secretary disclosed that she also briefed the President on
\nthe activities of the nine parastatals and agencies under the ministry as
\nwell as the Federal Information Centres in the states of the federation.<\/p>\n
According to her, the president raised concern about piracy and instructed
\nthe ministry to work harder to reduce piracy to ensure that the producers
\nof intellectual property such as Nigerian movies, get what is due to them.<\/p>\n
Folasade-Esan identified inadequate funding as one of the major challenges
\nthe ministry and its agencies were experiencing.<\/p>\n
She and said that the ministry was considering resuscitating its federal
\ninformation services in each state of the federation considering their
\nimportance to the success of its mandate.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the challenges have to do with adequate funding. We talked
\nespecially about National Press Centre that is not working up to the level
\nit should work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also talked about the Federal Information Centres. You will recall
\nthat we have Federal Information Centres in every state of the federation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not working optimally as well and we brought that to the fore
\nbecause that is actually one of the strengths of the Federal Ministry of
\nInformation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also talked a lot about the external publicity and the possibility of
\nreopening the Federal Information Services abroad.\u201c<\/p>\n
(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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