ABuja—The Federal Government said on Tuesday
that it had succeeded in jamming the transmission
signals of Radio Biafra, which had been operating
illegally from an unknown location.
Dr Yemi Folasade-Esan, the Permanent Secretary in
the Federal Ministry of Information, stated this while
speaking with State House correspondents after he
had briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the
activities of the ministry.

Folasade-Esan said that Buhari was adequately
briefed on the activities of the illegal radio station
and the successful blocking of its transmission signals.

“We also gave a report on (Radio Biafra) that right
now, the signals from Radio Biafra have been
jammed. The National Broadcasting Commission
(NBC) has successfully jammed that.

“The NBC is also working with security operatives to
get those behind that radio because it is an illegal
radio. It is not licensed by anybody to be on Nigeria’s
airwaves.“

The permanent secretary disclosed that she also
briefed the President on the activities of the nine
parastatals and agencies under the ministry as well as
the Federal Information Centres in the states of the
federation.

According to her, the president raised concern about
piracy and instructed the ministry to work harder to
reduce piracy to ensure that the producers of
intellectual property such as Nigerian movies, get
what is due to them.

Folasade-Esan identified inadequate funding as one
of the major challenges the ministry and its agencies
were experiencing.
She said that the ministry was considering
resuscitating its federal information services in each
state of the federation considering their importance
to the success of its mandate.

“Most of the challenges have to do with inadequate
funding. We talked especially about National Press
Centre that is not working up to the level it should
work.

“We also talked about the Federal Information
Centres. You will recall that we have Federal
Information Centres in every state of the federation.

“They are not working optimally as well and we
brought that to the fore because that is actually one
of the strengths of the Federal Ministry of
Information.

“We also talked a lot about the external publicity and
the possibility of reopening the Federal Information
Services abroad.“

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