As a follow-up to an earlier proposal, a team, led by the General Manager, Knowledge Enterprise of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Mrs. Uche Owo-Onu, on Wednesday, 24 July, 2013, met with the Management of the National Universities Commission (NUC), to fine-tune modalities for the production and transmission of an educational project to be known as University Debate, on the Channel 525 of the network. In her remarks, Mrs. Owo-Onu said that NTA Knowledge was a network channel transmitting on the Star times Digital Terrestrial Platform, with the mandate to produce and transmit formal or informal core educational content. She emphasised that the channel also sought to create a platform for the promotion of the activities of NUC and the universities.

The General Manager informed the Management that the channel was created four years ago, but that she took over last year and came to sensitise the Commission about its existence and the need for collaboration in the area of promoting university-wide debates. She said that the Knowledge network had embarked on a sensitisation of relevant stakeholders, to expose them to the importance of the channel.

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