Daily Report Nigeria
An office belonging to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in Sokoto State has been gutted by fire. The fire reportedly affected parts of the operational building of NTA. While confirming the fire outbreak via X on Sunday night, the TV station disclosed that the inferno lasted for over three hours before it was put out. […]
Reno Omokri has called out DSTV for allotting channel 419 to the Nigerian government-owned broadcaster, NTA. According to him, the act was intentional, and not a coincidence. He said it’s DSTV’s way of making a mockery of and demarketing Nigeria. The number, “419” refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal code dealing with fraud […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, appointed Mr. Salihu Abdulhamid Dembos as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Television Authority. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja According to him, the appointment is for a tenure of three years in the first instance. […]
Yakubu Mohammed, director-general of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), says rendering of free services is preventing the station from being self-funding. Mohammed said, because everyone thinks NTA belongs to every Nigerian, it is always under pressure to offer free services to ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). The director-general stated this on Tuesday when he appeared before […]
The journalist, who worked with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Thompson Reuters, is dead. He died in Johannesburg, South Africa, after a long battle with motor neuron disease (ALS). His death was confirmed in a statement by his family on Wednesday, August 10. The statement reads: “He died peacefully in Johannesburg, South Africa surrounded […]
The Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) has condemned the murder of Chukwu Obiahu, an employee of Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Okene, Kogi State. Obiahu was stoned to death on Tuesday evening by unknown assailants shortly after he closed from work. The Kogi State NUJ chairman, Comrade Momohjimoh Adeiza during a press conference on Thursday, […]
A female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Network Centre in Port Harcourt , Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, has been kidnapped by yet to be identified persons. Available details of how she was kidnapped are sketchy at the time of filing this report. But according to a post by Mrs Osinachi Samuel, her colleague, […]