Nigerians Complain That There Are No NTA Hausa, Igbo & Yoruba, But Are There?


1) The BBC and Nigerian languages

The BBC World Service Radio started broadcasting in Hausa in March 1957. The fact that the Hausa Service was the only Nigerian language service that the BBC had confused a lot of Nigerians and they asked why there were no BBC Igbo or BBC Yoruba services. For example, see the thread below:

Why Don't We Have BBC Igbo Or Yoruba Service
https://www.nairaland.com/1254057/why-dont-bbc-igbo-yoruba


I tried to explain to them (on that thread) that Hausa was probably the most widely spoken language in West Africa (it is spoken in Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, etc.) and that this was the primary reason that there was a Hausa Service.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/hausa.png[/img]

I also explained that the BBC had experienced massive budget cuts since 1995 (I was a short wave/BBC addict from 1989 till 2010) and that it was quite expensive to set up a short wave radio network.

The complaints increased when the BBC launched a Hausa Service TV channel.

BBC Launches Hausa TV News Programme 
https://www.nairaland.com/1895021/bbc-launches-hausa-tv-news#26155333


2) BBC Igbo, BBC Pidgin and BBC Yoruba.

Eventually, technnolgy evolved and this made it easy for the BBC to launch Igbo, Pidgin English and Yoruba services. These services are mainly propagated via social media (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube). The services were launched in 2018.

BBC World Service To Start Broadcasting In Igbo And Yoruba
https://www.nairaland.com/3467428/bbc-world-service-start-broadcasting#51069866

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/igbo.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/bbc.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/yoruba.png[/img]


3) And now the criticism has shifted to the NTA.

Many Nigerians complain that the BBC "came to Nigeria in 2018 and started broadcasting in Nigerian languages, meanwhile the NTA has not been able to broadcast in Nigerian languages". Is this true?

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.27.28.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.28.05.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.28.29.png[/img]



4) The NTA and Nigerian languages

The truth is that the NTA has been broadcasting in Nigerian languages for more than 40 years.

The NTA had 3 TV stations in Lagos in the 1980s and '90s: NTA2 Channel 5, NTA Channel 10 and NTA Channel 7. Channel 5 was the youth oriented/entertainment station, Channel 10 was the adult oriented/talk station and Channel 7 was the community station.

Channel 7 had news in Yoruba (Irohin) and Egun (Linlin) and they competed with Lagos Television (LTV) for Yoruba shows like Tan'mo, Fadeyi Oloro and F'eyi K'ogbon.

Similarly, NTA stations across the country also showed the news and other programmes in the Nigerian language that was dominant in their locality.


5) NTA Hausa, NTA Igbo and NTA Yoruba

Right, so the NTA has been showing Nigerian language programmes for decades, but does it have dedicated Nigerian language channels? Is there an NTA Hausa, an NTA Igbo or an NTA Yoruba? Of course there are.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.29.03.png[/img]

The NTA partnered with a Chinese satellite TV provider called StarTimes. They created a joint venture company called NTA-StarTimes. The NTA has 30% shares in the company, while StarTimes has 70% shares. The purpose of the company is to provide digital pay TV services to Nigerians.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/ntastar.jpg[/img]

NTA-StarTimes is the platform that hosts the NTA Multi-Channel service. The channels on the NTA Multi-Channel service are:

-- NTA News 24 Channel 101
– NTA Entertainment Channel 105
– NTA Knowledge Channel 525
– NTA Sports 24 Channel 628
– NTA Parliament Channel 325
– NTA Hausa Channel 106
– NTA Igbo Channel 108
– NTA Yoruba Channel 107


Therefore, there is an NTA Hausa (Nagari Nakowa), NTA Igbo Ezu and NTA Ikanni Oodua.

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NTA language channels advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pz7zI7vhg



https://m.facebook.com/ntayoruba/

https://mobile.twitter.com/NTA_Yoruba

https://m.facebook.com/NTAHausaL/

https://mobile.twitter.com/NTALHausa/with_replies

https://mobile.twitter.com/NtaIgbo

Some Nigerians are still confused, as can be seen from the conversation below.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.52.20.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.53.05.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.53.32.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.54.10.png[/img]

However, I blame the NTA. The NTA has a lot of features that many Nigerians are not aware of and this is because they are not social media savy.

For example, Mrs Aisha Buhari visited the United States in 2016, but many people claimed that she was not really in the United States. She had an interview with the VOA in Washington, but these people claimed that it was fake and that the NTA would have shown her in the US if she was really there.

Meanwhile, the NTA had a reporte in Mrs Buhari's delegation and he provided regulate reports about Mrs Buhari's activities in the US and these reports were shown on the 9 o'clock news.

The problem was that there were no videos of these reports online. The NTA buried them in 45 minutes long YouTube videos called "Network News". Nobody has the data to watch a 45 minutes long news video.

The NTA has a lot of new programmes, reports and features but they are not on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Nairaland and YouTube) and nowadays, you don't exist if you are not aggressively pushing your services on social media.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.55.07.png[/img]


(Meanwhile, Radio Nigeria has been broadcasting in Nigerian languages since 1950 and has had a community radio station, called RN 3 or Bond FM, since 1989 and it broadcasts in Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba).

Macbeth in Igbo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4qhOKvDsjU



Asusu Igbo 1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ZbiSbTaro

Iroyin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwQ9H6sLBU


Interview with Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye on NTA Ikanni Oodua

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV43VA9jMCY

Hausa boxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpSKZIno-jU

Hausa news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_skmMAyIEi8

So people still watch NTA?!

Multi-channels.


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[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/nt2.jpg[/img]


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naptu2:
Nigerians Complain That There Are No NTA Hausa, Igbo & Yoruba, But Are There?


1) The BBC and Nigerian languages

The BBC World Service Radio started broadcasting in Hausa in March 1957. The fact that the Hausa Service was the only Nigerian language service that the BBC had confused a lot of Nigerians and they asked why there were no BBC Igbo or BBC Yoruba services. For example, see the thread below:

Why Don't We Have BBC Igbo Or Yoruba Service
https://www.nairaland.com/1254057/why-dont-bbc-igbo-yoruba


I tried to explain to them (on that thread) that Hausa was probably the most widely spoken language in West Africa (it is spoken in Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, etc.) and that this was the primary reason that there was a Hausa Service.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/hausa.png[/img]

I also explained that the BBC had experienced massive budget cuts since 1995 (I was a short wave/BBC addict from 1989 till 2010) and that it was quite expensive to set up a short wave radio network.

The complaints increased when the BBC launched a Hausa Service TV channel.

BBC Launches Hausa TV News Programme 
https://www.nairaland.com/1895021/bbc-launches-hausa-tv-news#26155333


2) BBC Igbo, BBC Pidgin and BBC Yoruba.

Eventually, technnolgy evolved and this made it easy for the BBC to launch Igbo, Pidgin English and Yoruba services. These services are mainly propagated via social media (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube). The services were launched in 2018.

BBC World Service To Start Broadcasting In Igbo And Yoruba
https://www.nairaland.com/3467428/bbc-world-service-start-broadcasting#51069866

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/igbo.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/bbc.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/yoruba.png[/img]


3) And now the criticism has shifted to the NTA.

Many Nigerians complain that the BBC "came to Nigeria in 2018 and started broadcasting in Nigerian languages, meanwhile the NTA has not been able to broadcast in Nigerian languages". Is this true?

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.27.28.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.28.05.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.28.29.png[/img]



4) The NTA and Nigerian languages

The truth is that the NTA has been broadcasting in Nigerian languages for more than 40 years.

The NTA had 3 TV stations in Lagos in the 1980s and '90s: NTA2 Channel 5, NTA Channel 10 and NTA Channel 7. Channel 5 was the youth oriented/entertainment station, Channel 10 was the adult oriented/talk station and Channel 7 was the community station.

Channel 7 had news in Yoruba (Irohin) and Egun (Linlin) and they competed with Lagos Television (LTV) for Yoruba shows like Tan'mo, Fadeyi Oloro and F'eyi K'ogbon.

Similarly, NTA stations across the country also showed the news and other programmes in the Nigerian language that was dominant in their locality.


5) NTA Hausa, NTA Igbo and NTA Yoruba

Right, so the NTA has been showing Nigerian language programmes for decades, but does it have dedicated Nigerian language channels? Is there an NTA Hausa, an NTA Igbo or an NTA Yoruba? Of course there are.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.29.03.png[/img]

The NTA partnered with a Chinese satellite TV provider called StarTimes. They created a joint venture company called NTA-StarTimes. The NTA has 30% shares in the company, while StarTimes has 70% shares. The purpose of the company is to provide digital pay TV services to Nigerians.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/ntastar.jpg[/img]

NTA-StarTimes is the platform that hosts the NTA Multi-Channel service. The channels on the NTA Multi-Channel service are:

-- NTA News 24 Channel 101
– NTA Entertainment Channel 105
– NTA Knowledge Channel 525
– NTA Sports 24 Channel 628
– NTA Parliament Channel 325
– NTA Hausa Channel 106
– NTA Igbo Channel 108
– NTA Yoruba Channel 107


Therefore, there is an NTA Hausa (Nagari Nakowa), NTA Igbo Ezu and NTA Ikanni Oodua.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/22792485_670160600038359_242764082405856955_o.jpg?w=1024[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/22688451_382709182159331_4350601794742516927_n.jpg[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/img_20190330_054217.jpg[/img]


NTA language channels advert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pz7zI7vhg



https://m.facebook.com/ntayoruba/

https://mobile.twitter.com/NTA_Yoruba

https://m.facebook.com/NTAHausaL/

https://mobile.twitter.com/NTALHausa/with_replies

https://mobile.twitter.com/NtaIgbo

Some Nigerians are still confused, as can be seen from the conversation below.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.52.20.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.53.05.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.53.32.png[/img]

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.54.10.png[/img]

However, I blame the NTA. The NTA has a lot of features that many Nigerians are not aware of and this is because they are not social media savy.

For example, Mrs Aisha Buhari visited the United States in 2016, but many people claimed that she was not really in the United States. She had an interview with the VOA in Washington, but these people claimed that it was fake and that the NTA would have shown her in the US if she was really there.

Meanwhile, the NTA had a reporte in Mrs Buhari's delegation and he provided regulate reports about Mrs Buhari's activities in the US and these reports were shown on the 9 o'clock news.

The problem was that there were no videos of these reports online. The NTA buried them in 45 minutes long YouTube videos called "Network News". Nobody has the data to watch a 45 minutes long news video.

The NTA has a lot of new programmes, reports and features but they are not on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Nairaland and YouTube) and nowadays, you don't exist if you are not aggressively pushing your services on social media.

[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2019/03/2019-03-31-11.55.07.png[/img]


(Meanwhile, Radio Nigeria has been broadcasting in Nigerian languages since 1950 and has had a community radio station, called RN 3 or Bond FM, since 1989 and it broadcasts in Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba).

well researched and a well done job.
very educating and informative.
Kudos.

They need to do more !!

SEGLIZ:

well researched and a well done job.
very educating and informative.
Kudos.

And you had to quote everything to type this??

Ishilove:

And you had to quote everything to type this??

and you expect me to start editing? Ibeg me I no dey for wahala.
I nobi Africa first son.