ebuk4real:


Mark my word: by the time APC FG government are done in 2023, the money they would have borrowed in their 8years will be triple of what the PDP has borrowed in their 16years of bad governance.

In summary: the APC motto remains 'the more we look, the less we see'.

Scammers!!!

And there will be nothing to show for it.

This government has borrowed into the future of the unborn Nigerians, it is sad and very unhealthy for a developing third world nation like Nigeria

To NASS.

$500MILLION FOR THE SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE NTA. GOOD.. AUTHORIZE IT FOR NTA.

THEN, FOR ALL EMBRACING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AUTHORIZE $740MILLION TO BE SHARED @ $20MILLION PER STATE & FCT TO BUILD MODERN BUHARI RANCHES IN EACH STATE CAPITAL AND ABUJA.

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

Does Nigeria require an external loan to...

1. Establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m
2.Digitise all NTA stations at $11m
3. construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Who is going to pay for all these expensive debts...

African Reliance on Foreign Debt is ‘Madness,’ Warns Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam
Credit Suisse Group AG Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam says it is “madness” for African nations to rely on loans in foreign currencies to fund vital infrastructure including roads, power and clean water.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/african-reliance-on-foreign-debt-is-madness-says-credit-suisses-thiam-1444125696

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

And it is wise for nigerian govt to mortgage 500m$ of ur future and that of ur kids to setup a tv station that cant compete with channels to look like CNN for whom exactly to watch it. Mark my words. 500m$ worth of ur future and that of ur kids lol. You are doomed.

Scam. NtA already has a digitization partnership with star times tv. This minister should be sacked. Details of transaction with star times still not revealed to the public

Ustec:


Stop embarrassing yourself on a public forum

All these unplanned pregnancies. A simple condom would have solve this problem like having you here disgracing fellow humans.

9-G- RIA Be deliver from the hands of visionless leader

This man Lai Mohammed doesn't just lie. He is a thief. You all should watch him closely

Spending money on NTA is like pouring water into a basket.

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

*******

After reading my mentions, I still could see the reason why a white man's Twitter thrives better than Nairaland even within Nigeria. The old people outgrew here

I am yet to see one policy or action of this government you have criticised.

$850 for a TV station is lie! Cable TV can be set up with about N15bn which is roughly $42m.

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

*******

After reading my mentions, I still could see the reason why a white man's Twitter thrives better than Nairaland even within Nigeria. The old people outgrew here

You're a very stupid man nd it's funny to see u keep showing ur stupidity trying to defend wickedness. One day we'll give account of our works. Keep on being wicked.

$500M na wao

on behalf of all well meaning Nigerians,......we are cumulatively pleading with IMF and other related institutions to outrightly reject to loan this criminals any more money to share among themselves in the guise of developing Nigeria,let them give an account of the once they have already borrowed.this people enwero obi at all.

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

Admittedly, the headline is misleading, but you are still defending the indefensible. Nigerian leaders are some of the worst in the world, and those in APC are no exception. And anyone who defends them is no better than they are.

Do you know what $500m is? Even the so-called $11m is just too much. Perhaps Lai Mohammed wants to cut his own share of the national cake.

Mind you, the NTA stations were not established by one administration, so why are you upgrading everything at the same time? Why not do it in phases? Digitize Lagos and Abuja stations as pilot schemes. Use that to assess how others would be.

It's funny how he compares NTA to CNN. Aside from those in rural communities, who still watches NTA these days? The major channel through which the traditional media generates funds is ads. And advertising is gradually going digital because digital marketing offers more benefits than the traditional media channels. Again, the point is that they want to borrow a whopping $500m. Now that begs the question, "Can they repay the loan?" How do they plan to do that? Through glo ads?


Until we have people who will start managing this country like they run companies, we will keep fooling ourselves in this country. After borrowing and looting the money, they will leave that vacuum for the next government.

With the way the APC criticized Jonathan, I thought these nonentities had a much better idea.

ebuk4real:


Mark my word: by the time APC FG government are done in 2023, the money they would have borrowed in their 8years will be triple of what the PDP has borrowed in their 16years of bad governance.

In summary: the APC motto remains 'the more we look, the less we see'.

Scammers!!!

Tripple the amount is understatement it will swallow it completely infact the amount of debt they(apc) would have incurred by 2023 will break world record since creation infact heaven and hell will be shock.

I remember when Ben Bruce Murray was there,he tried to modernize NTA.l remember the new NTA logo but after he left everything was reversed back to as it was a long ago.

Ordinary TV !!. Which kine wahala be dis.

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

*******
A while ago, many people would scream about reformig NTA. The display is whack, their staff is this and that...... Here is a way out and then it's another complaint again

After reading my mentions, I still could see the reason why a white man's Twitter thrives better than Nairaland even within Nigeria. The old people outgrew here

Oga calm down, for your info quora wasn't built with $850 million dollars. what the heck are they building inside quora.

11 milliom dollars is even too expensive to improve the dead NTA station, I say so because NTA can't tell me they have no fond of their after years of active service.

If NTA isn't developed till today, it's because of the same reason while Nairaland isn't still developed, a blackman see no benefit in improvement, if it doesn't have any immediate gratification or gain.

Compete with CNN on what grounds?

500m USD can be put to better use

1. CNN is not a state-owned organization. A better comparison would have been the BBC which has a variety of channels

2. NTA is not a news only channel so i wonder why they are striving to be like CNN

3. NTA's problem goes further than digitalization. Digitalize it all you can, if they are not objective in their news coverage, no one will watch it!

Borrow, borrow, borrow...

JasonScoolari:
"Borrow Borrow" government will give an estimate of $500m for a project, but will use $20m to execute it.... The remaining $480m balance,well, your guess is as good as mine.


This lifeless administration has plunge the country into chronic indebtedness.

Shame!

Anti-corruption fight's costly bro.

Costlier when the major fight's against shadows and imaginary bogey men.

Those id1ots!

there was no mention of re-education of staff at the NTA. so it seems to them that CNN is where it is becauae of picture quality...

presenters who have no proper grasp of the topics they want to discuss - who seem lost during interviews.

how can you spend 500m dolls without training a single staff....

Did he say they want to be like CNN??

*******
A while ago, many people would scream about reformig NTA. The display is whack, their staff is this and that...... Here is a way out and then it's another complaint again

After reading my mentions, I still could see the reason why a white man's Twitter thrives better than Nairaland even within Nigeria. The old people outgrew here[/quote]
The Issues is loan is easy money. More money less efficiency.

What stops Lai Muhammed to think outside the box. NTA is already an established station. They should find out to release programs that can sustainably finance and develop the network.
On the other hand, NTA isn't the only TV station in Nigeria. So if all other avenue for higher revenue proves abortive, the next thing Lai should consider is merging with a thriving private TV network. Work the TV station hard, meet the requirement and go back to an improved independent national station.

As they say, easy money dosen't allow people to think.

stanliwise:
Oga calm down, for your info quora wasn't built with $850 million dollars. what the heck are they building inside quora.

11 milliom dollars is even too expensive to improve the dead NTA station, I say so because NTA can't tell me they have no fond of their after years of active service.

If NTA isn't developed till today, it's because of the same reason while Nairaland isn't still developed, a blackman see no benefit in improvement, if it doesn't have any immediate gratification or gain.

You need to learn to read slowly and understand. Kindly point out where I said Quora was built with millions of dollars?

If $11 is too much, kindly give an estimate of what would do the job

Or do you guys think it's just a one station? It's all stations in Nigeria with standard equipments..

After Buhari is done with us, we will be looking like an over-raped vaginas. It can no longer contract.

As long as it remains that northern television authority, no it will not.

Sack all the ancient northerners there and put educated and progressive southerners drawn from all over the world and watch it rise to a proper national television without borrowing all those huge monies.

NTA is running on northern OS.

And that is the problem.

BTW, Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world.
There are so many other sectors that needs 500 million dollars more.

Those lenders should pity the people of Nigeria and disregard that request.

FG should please remember to pay police liability of over N25billion owning Nigerian contractors since 2008 till 2015. Some of those contractors are paralyzed with stroke, some are currently hypertensive and many other more. I hope paying these contractors Will go a long way to boost SME.

Officialgarri:

It's quite a shame on you to be among the people who affirms a belief that social media might have come too early to Nigeria.
Everyone child wants to comment even on matters they are totally ignorant about. What do you know about TV stations both analogue and digital? I mean can you even afford a TV set?

Did you and the 'first to comment crew' even try to read the report to the end? No. You just read "$500m" and then your adrenaline pushes you type whatever...

No doubt, the proposed social media regulation would have helped a lot.

Go to Quora or other educative websites and you'd see it will cost about $850m to setup a TV station. But you didn't even read the part where Lai said....

... the loan was aimed at establishing the media and culture industry centre at the cost of $245m, digitise all NTA stations at $11m and construct integrated television services to infuse on network, .......

Instead you were bent on making bold every letter you need to expose your ignorance.

*******
A while ago, many people would scream about reformig NTA. The display is whack, their staff is this and that...... Here is a way out and then it's another complaint again

After reading my mentions, I still could see the reason why a white man's Twitter thrives better than Nairaland even within Nigeria. The old people outgrew here

Well, we currently have 12 centers in the country.

And one other person was asking me the use ; well, I'd ask you to make research yourself. But nevertheless, it's meant to promote, preserve your culture and also a means of job creation

You ended up not saying anything

They will waste it again