mrdan: Hey naptu, good previews, they brought back memories.
But you did not preview Clapperboard Tv, they tried to bring back LTV and they later became one of our now defuncts early private TV's
naptu2: Oh, yeah! This was on my mind while I was exercising this morning.
Before establishment
The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission was established in 1993 by the Babangida Administration and private radio and TV stations began broadcasting in 1994/1995.
However, there are some popular TV companies that existed long before they were granted TV licenses and long before they started transmitting as independent TV stations. This post is about those companies.
Nigeria qualified for the first ever FIFA Under 16 World Championship, which was held in China in 1985 and Degue Broadcasting Network got the rights to broadcast the tournament. At that time the only stations that existed in Nigeria were the NTA and the various state TV stations.
What sports marketing companies usually did was to buy the rights to tournaments, seek for sponsors that would pay for advertisements and then collaborate with the NTA to show the tournaments on the NTA Network Service. This way the company would make its money, NTA would get the chance to deliver a public service and also make money and the advertisers would get exposure. Viewers would also get the chance to see first class sporting action and to support their teams and everybody would be happy.
It was because of that tournament (China '85) that I knew that the company was called DBN. The sign in front of their office at Awolowo Road in Ikoyi read "Degue" at that time.
They also promoted other tournaments after China '85, but I really can't remember the exact tournaments (was it Mexico '86?).
Anyway, DBN began broadcasting as an independent TV station in 1994 or '95 and they became popular for their sports shows and especially for their coverage of Atlanta '96 (Deji Omotoyinbo and Kessington Ajufo). The station was owned by Osa Sunny Adun.
Remember that I posted a video of Yellowman performing at Reggae Sunsplash? Well Reggae Sunsplash was very popular in Nigeria because it was shown on the NTA in the early and mid-1980s and the concert inspired the creation of a similar concert in Lagos. It was known as Lekki Sunsplash and it was held at the Lekki Beach.
Lekki Beach was quite popular in the mid-1980s because it was a new beach and people felt that the crowd would not be too much and that the beach would be cleaner than the Bar Beach. Besides, the Bar Beach had begun eroding in the mid-1980s and people just wanted to see the new beach that everybody was talking about.
The creation of Lekki Sunsplash coincided with the growth of Reggae in Nigeria. Many new reggae artistes were appearing on the scene at that time and their songs were very popular. These artistes included Ras Kimono, Majek Fashek, The Mandators, Evi Edna Ogholi, Oritz Wiliki, Kris Hanen, etc. and they all performed at Lekki Sunsplah. However, the concert was not just about reggae music and in fact all the major artistes of the late 1980s and early 1990s performed at Reggae Sunsplash. These included Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Blackky, Alex O, Feladey, Edmund Spice and Danny Wilson.
The promoter of Lekki Sunsplash was Toyin Munis. He held the shows in conjunction with the Lagos State Government (who owned Lekki Beach). I remember that, on one occasion, either Prime People or Vintage People reported that he parked his SUV by a bush path in order to stop people from getting into Lekki Beach via those bush paths (you had to pay before you could get into the beach).
To show you how crazy people were about Lekki Sunsplash I need to make you understand that there was no regular bus service through that area in 1986. There were buses that took people from CMS or Obalende just because of the concert, but getting back was a big problem. Many people walked from Lekki Beach to Sandfill in order to get home, while some walked all the way to Falomo.
In 1991 Toyin Munis began a TV service. He bought time on LTV 8 and showed a wide range of interesting programmes. These programs were usually shown on Saturday mornings and at around 4-6pm on weekdays. The name of the TV service was Clapperboard.
They had Clapperboard Raps on Saturday mornings at around 10am. If I remember correctly, it was produced by Obi Asika. It was basically a Nigerian version of Yo! MTV Raps. They showed some foreign and Nigerian raps songs and then they had a segment for Jimmy's Jump Off. DJ Jimmy Jatt usually played songs in this segment, but he also often showcased new and unknown rap artistes who would be allowed to rap over a beat that Jimmy had chosen. I was shocked when I saw someone that I know on the show in 1991. He was an extremely muscular guy and he appeared as a hypeman (or should I say backup dancer, because he didn't really say much, he was just throwing his hands around) to one of the rappers.
Do you know that 2Face Idibia made his first TV appearance on Jimmy's Jump Off on Clapperboard Raps?
Anyway, the Clapperboard time slot on LTV 8 was shown in 1991, 1992, but then it vanished in 1993. Clapperboard later appeared as an independent TV station in 1994. It was the first private TV station in Lagos and it was on UHF 45.
John Momoh was a popular newscaster on the NTA in the 1980s. He usually read the 9 o'clock news. A separate show was created for him sometime around 1989 and it was called "Tonight At 9". It was shown at 9pm on Mondays.
Mr Momoh left the NTA sometime around 1992 and everybody wondered where he went. It was later reported that he had created his own TV production company. The very first programme that was produced by that company (called Channels Television) was an interview of President Ibrahim Babangida on the grounds of the Aso Rock Villa in 1993. John Momoh personally interviewed the president. It was kind of unusual to see an interview of the president outside the usual network news interviews.
Channels Television began broadcasting as an independent TV station in 1995.
naptu2: The man's name is Sir David Jason. Two of his sitcoms were shown in Nigeria, but the one I was looking for is A Sharp Intake Of Breath (Lagos Television c1981-c1995).
This was the era in which hip hop became main stream. The major awards shows (Grammys, American Music Awards, Soul Train, etc) who had previously placed hip hop music in the R&B or pop category, finally created a separate category for rap/hip hop music. TV stations created shows that focused on or heavily featured rap songs. For example, Olisa Adibua hosted Top Of The Pops on NTA2 Channel 5 between 1988-1990, MTV created Yo! MTV Raps in 1988 and a new showed called Clapperboard Raps appeared on Lagos Television c1991 (Clapperboard would become the first private TV station in Lagos in 1994).
A new radio station appeared on the airwaves in Lagos in 1990. It was called OGBC 2 FM. It attracted listeners with its newspaper reviews, Bournvita/Brilla Sports Special and of course, the fact that it filled the airwaves with the latest hip hop and R&B songs (at a time when RN2 was still playing old songs from the early 1980s and still had a lot of talk shows).
Many of the best raps before and up to this era, were performed by guest rappers on R&B or pop songs (a few of such songs will be in this playlist), but this era changed all that. There were now more strictly hip hop songs and there was even a reversal of roles, with singers guest starring on hip hop songs (singing the choruses).
Picture 2) The former assistant secretary for African affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, visited the AES Barge power plant. Mrs Thomas-Greenfield is now the US ambassador to the United Nations.
naptu2: Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, the Baba Adinni of Nigeria
The late Baba Adinni of Nigeria, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, was a member of the donation circuit. He was one of the wealthiest Nigerians of the 1970s, '80s and 1990s and he donated enormous sums of money to charity. He also had a noticeable impact on the development of Lagos State, both through his business activities and through his philanthropy.
Chief Folawiyo attended the University of North London in 1951, where he read Management, specialising in Ship Brokerage. In 1957, he founded Yinka Folawiyo & Sons, which has become the parent company of the Yinka Folawiyo Group of Companies. The group imported cement and sugar from the former Soviet Union, then later introduced building materials from Romania and Bulgaria into the Nigerian market. In 1967, the firm was incorporated as a limited liability company. When Folawiyo and Sons' revenues increased, the firm began chartering vessels to bring in commodities including cement, building materials, frozen fish and fertilizer.
Shipping
To provide logistics support for the firm's trading operations, the group established Maritime Associates (International) as a vessel chartering, clearing and forwarding company. The company was later invited to bid for shipment of agricultural produce from Nigeria to Europe. In 1972, the group established Green Lines shipping company when demand for chartering of ocean liners increased. M.V. Ahmodu Tijani, a 10,826 dead-weight ton carrier was purchased in 1973 as the first ocean liner. By 1980, the firm owned six vessels and had joined the UK/West Africa Lines Joint Service and the Continental West Africa Conference. In the 1970s, regular service was provided between Hamburg/Antwerp and Lagos. The firm later acquired M.V. Bello Folawiyo and M.V. Yinka Folawiyo in the mid 1980s.
Trans-Atlantic International Lighterage was established in the 1970s, it operated within the Lagos Port Complex providing lighterage service with the use of pontoons and barges.
This (shipping) was the business that Folawiyo was most famous for.
Other businesses
In 1971, the United Property Development Company was founded as a real estate investment vehicle. The Nigerian Spanish Cement Company was founded as a bulk cement bagging operation with its own deep water berth. The firm also invested in farming projects across the country including a rice farm in Rivers State which was established as a cooperation between the group and the Rivers State government. The firm also owned farm estates in Oyo involved in livestock and cultivation of fruits.
Electricity and the Lagos Power Project
In 1999, Yinka Folawiyo Power, a subsidiary of the group entered into a partnership with Enron for the development of an independent Power Project. This was the first privately funded power project in Nigeria since the country's independence and after legislation liberalized the sector in 1998. The 270 MW plant became operational in 2001, by then Enron had sold its remaining equity to AES and the Folawiyo Group.
The power plant is located on a barge which is moored off the shores of Ikorodu, near the Egbin Power Station. It is a thermal power plant and it receives gas from the Escravos-Lagos pipeline system. At the time only the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) was permitted by law to sell electricity to consumers. The Lagos State Government said that it had a deal with NEPA that the power that was generated on the barge would be distributed in Lagos. However, the power was actually fed into the National Grid when the plant became operational.
Crude oil and the Lagos Aje Oil Field
In 1982, the group incorporated a natural energy company, Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum, to focus on gas recovery and gasoline sales. In June 1991, the company was granted an Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 309 as a Sole Risk Contract under the Nigerian government's Indigenous Allocation Programme, put in place to encourage the development of a locally owned and operated Nigerian upstream Oil industry.
Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum owns a 60% interest in the Aje Oil and gas field on OML 113, 24km offshore of western Nigeria. The field is located off the coast of Badagry in Lagos State.
In 2016, Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum announced its first production of crude oil from the Aje Field, the first producing field outside of the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
As a result of the good standing of the company and its commitment to develop the gas potential of the field, the authorities renewed in August 2018 the OML 113 license for a further period of 20 years.
Video: The managing director of the Folawiyo Group, Mr Tunde Folawiyo, visited Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at Lagos House Marina in 2016 to inform him that production had started at the Aje Oil Field and that Lagos had become an oil producing state.
Folawiyo Energy is a midstream Oil and Gas Company focusing on delivering storage solutions for refined fuel products through its privately owned deepwater jetty in Lagos, Nigeria.
Enyo Retail & Supply was established in 2016, following the growing liberalization and evolution of oil and gas industries in Nigeria. It owns a chain of fuel stations across the country.
Philanthropy
Chief Wahab Iyanda was a member of the Donation Circuit.
[quote author=naptu2 post=69122609]The donation circuit was not a formal organisation, but it’s the way that I refer to a phenomenon that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the Babangida era).
Some of Nigeria’s wealthiest men were often invited to specific events in which they donated large sums of money. These events included fund raising in churches and mosques, university convocations, book launching and fund raising activities by universities, secondary schools, community development associations and charities.
It was usually the same set of people that were invited to these events. The president was usually the special guest of honour (when he was invited), the governor was usually the chief host, the head of the institution was usually the host, Chief Abiola was usually the chief launcher and other members of the donation circuit were usually special guests.
There was a day that I watched the 9 o’clock news and there was an advert for one of these events and the invited guests were listed. There was another advert immediately after and the list of invited guests was almost exactly the same as the list in the previous advert.
The members of the donation circuit included Chief MKO Abiola, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, Chief Sunny Odogwu, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, Chief Razak Okoya, Prince Adedapo Tejuosho, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, Prince Adekunle Ojora, Chief Onwuka Kalu (Onwuka Inter-Biz), Chief Michael Ibru, Dr Alex Ibru, Chief Sunny Okogwu, Chief Francis Arthur Nzeribe, Alhaji Isyaku Rabiu, Dr Olusola Saraki, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, etc.
Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo donated huge sums of money to schools, charities and similar causes. He endowed the professorial chair in Physics at the University of Lagos, and contributed to virus research at the University of Ibadan. Folawiyo, in June 1998, also became the first private individual to put together a physical structure at the University of Lagos when he upgraded the University's Health Centre to a full-fledged hospital complete with an X-ray Unit. In sports, he was the sole philanthropist of the Yinka Folawiyo U 15 Athletics Championships and the National Amateur Wrestling Championships. He also funded the Bab Es Salam Home for orphans in Lagos.
Lagos Central Mosque
Chief Folawiyo contributed almost 90% of the funds that was used to rebuild the Lagos Central Mosque. The new mosque, which was opened in 1988 by President Ibrahim Babangida, was several times bigger than the old mosque which was built in the early 1900s. He was also instrumental in the construction of the Surulere Central Mosque and the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna.
Folawiyo also sponsored very many Islamic programmes on radio and television during Ramadan.
Honours
Chief Folawiyo was installed as the chancellor of the Lagos State University, Ojo in 1999. He was given the national honours of Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) by President Shehu Shagari in 1982 and Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) by President Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2000.
He was also honoured by many universities, for example, he was given the honorary degrees of Doctor of Law by the University of Calabar in 1991, Doctor of Letters by the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1992, Doctor of Science by the Lagos State University, Ojo, in 1998 and Millennium Award of Doctor of Science by the University of Lagos.
He was given the key to Dade County, Florida, in the U.S. and he was also a patron of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce.
He was (obviously) the Baba Adinni of Nigeria, he was the Grand Patron of the Nigerian Muslim Council and he also served as the chairman of the Executive Council of the Lagos Central Mosque
Personal life
Princess Abba Adesanya was one of the most popular fashion designers in Nigeria in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her fashion house, Labanella, was probably the biggest fashion house in the country and they made expensive clothes for the elite. She had been married to Segun Awolowo (the son of Chief Obafemi Awolowo) in the 1960s and she bore a son, Segun Junior, for him. However, Segun Awolowo Senior died in a car crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Road before his son was born. He was 25 years old at the time (this was in 1963).
She got married to Evangelist Lagun Adesanya in the 1970s, but they later separated.
Rumours emerged in the early 1990s that Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, was dating Princess Abba Adesanya. It was in all the gossip magazines, but the pair denied that they were dating. However, a few months later, it was announced that they were married. The marriage lasted until Chief Folawiyo's death in 2008.
The Baba Adinni of Nigeria, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, passed away at his home on Queen's Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos in the early hours of 6 June 2008. He was buried the same day at the cemetery of the Lagos Central Mosque (which is usually reserved for imams).
Chief Folawiyo's son, Mr Tunde Folawiyo, took over the running of the company after his death. There was an extremely funny thread about Tunde Folawiyo on Nairaland. King Sunny Ade celebrated his 70th birthday in 2016 and as part of the activities that were held to mark the occassion, his guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, was auctioned. Tunde Folawiyo bought it for 52.1 million naira. People on the Nairaland thread said that he must have made a mistake and that he must have regretted paying that amount of money for the guitar. They obviously did not know who Tunde Folawiyo was.
mfm04622: What was the context? Did he not understand the mineral or was he joking?
Check my shared posts. You'll understand the issues behind the success of Barkin Zuwo if you check the shared posts. I'll also share my previous post about his statements.
superior494: This OP sef... So Nigeria is now 34 states instead of 36.
Chai! See wetin Baba cause.
Kai! The English Language cannot be so difficult to understand! What was written there is, "Lagos State, one of the 34 States in Nigeria selected for the cash transfer programme of the Federal Government". Don't tell me that you cannot understand what that means!
These are the “other” stations. Lagos Television began broadcasting c1980 and it was on channel 8. The Lagos Weekend Television was created shortly afterwards, around c1981 and it ran from around 7pm on Friday nights till 7am on Monday mornings between 1981 and 1985 when a fire burnt down its studio.
I actually don’t know when OGTV started broadcasting. All I know was that I was playing with the UHF dial one day and there it was. It also showed very interesting programmes, just like LTV and one of its unique selling points was that it began transmission at 7am at weekends, unlike other stations that began transmission at 9am.
OGTV was a little difficult to get. The problem wasn’t just that it was transmitting from Abeokuta, it was also the fact that it was nearly impossible for us to get it clearly and also get other stations clearly.
I was the deputy antenna engineer in my house in the 1980s (I used a very long ladder to climb to the roof in order to adjust the antenna) and the problem was that whenever you adjusted the antenna in order to get OGTV clearly, you’d end up making NTA2 Channel 5, NTA Channel 7, LTV 8 and NTA Channel 10 very unclear and whenever you make the other stations clear, you’ll end up making OGTV almost invisible.
(Turn it a bit. Turn it a bit. A bit more. Stop! Wait while I check the other channels.
Turn it back!)
The 3rd song on this video was part of OGTV’s unique selling point. It was the theme tune to the OGTV’s Breakfast Headliners, a newspaper review show that was shown at 7am on Saturdays and Sundays.
Toshiaki Tsushima and his Optonica New Sound Orchestra – Little Broun Jug (1978)
This was the theme song of the Lagos Weekend Television (LWT), one of the unique selling points of Lagos Television (LTV). It was probably the first 24 hour television station in Nigeria. It ran nonstop from 7pm on Fridays to 7am on Mondays between 1981 and 1985.
The LWT actually continued after 1985. It was shown well into the 1990s, but it stopped being a 24 hour station after its studio burnt down in 1985.
naptu2: I just heard that Lagos Weekend Television (LWT) is making a comeback. They said that Governor Ambode commissioned the new LWT two days ago. I wonder what their selling point will be this time.
TV stations usually started transmitting at 5pm and closed down at midnight every week day in the early 1980s. Weekend transmission was usually from 9am-midnight (they sometimes took a break between noon and 4pm).
LWT changed all that in 1980. LTV transformed into LWT at 6pm on Friday and continued transmitting until 6am on Monday. They showed lots of movies through the night and great detective shows like Invisible Man, CI5, etc in the early mornings and evenings.
Old Man would order everybody to go and sleep and everywhere would be quiet for between 30 mins to one hour, then you'd hear noise coming from the kitchen - my brother preparing his tv meal (Old Man eventually gave up and stopped trying to make him go to sleep).
Unfortunately LWT's studios got burnt in 1985 and that was that.
naptu2: I found a clip of an LWT broadcast/station ident, but unfortunately it's not the animated graphics. It's just the background artwork and the duty continuity announcer.
These are specific (special) tv belts, not the generic ones.
1) LWT
Basically, television stations began their daily transmission at 5pm and went off air at midnight every weekday. At weekends they, at first, started transmitting at 12pm and went off air at midnight. Later (in the 1980s) they would start transmitting at 9am (on weekends), go off air at midday, resume at 4pm and close for the day at midnight. Then came LWT.
(After the frequency battle between the Federal Government/NPN/Radio Nigeria/NTA2 Channel 5 vs Lagos State Government/UPN/LTV was resolved)
That was the signature tune of Lagos Weekend Television (LWT).
LWT ran nonstop from 7pm on Friday evening till 7am on Monday morning. You'd hear the saxophone playing Chariots Of Fire and you'd know that Lagos Television (LTV) had transformed into Lagos Weekend Television (LWT).
LWT showed movies almost all night long. Nobody cared about copyright then, so they could show any movie that they wanted. The evenings (8:30-11pm) were dedicated to crime/detective series like:
Skarsky and Hutch Hawai Five-O Dan August Monty Nash The Proffessionals (CI-5) Etc.
Then it was movies all the way until 6 or 7am.
At 6/7am they showed great shows like:
The Invisible Man The Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Woman The Man From Atlantis Secret Service (my favourite) Wonderwoman Incredible Hulk (Lou Ferigno & Bill Bixby) etc until around 9am.
It was so much fun from 1981-1986. Then the LWT studio got burnt and that was the end of that.
Super 7:20 Belt
NTA2 Channel 5 went commercial in 1987 and made a lot of changes that set them apart from other stations. They began transmission at 4pm each day, instead of 5pm, developed several eye catching idents (♪Your reach out station, NTA2, NTA2 Channel 5♬), broadcast a new and more modern arrangement of the national anthem (on the keyboards, rather than a brass band) and created the Super 7:20 Belt.
The Super 7:20 Belt began at 7:20pm and ended at 8pm. Silverbird Productions owned the rights (in Nigeria) for most of the programmes that were shown.
The programmes that were shown included:
Frank's Place (starring Tim Reid)
The Cosby Show
A Different World
Brush Strokes
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Arsenio Hall Show
New Trends (fashion show hosted by Ime Oge James)
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Video Soul (Donnie Simpson)
Video Vibrations
Family Matters
and a british sitcom about a London cab driver, who bumps into an old (female) friend from his teenage years. She is now a successful businesswoman, but she pretends that she's a secretary and that her actual secretary is her boss. She does this in order not to embarrass the taxi driver.
The Super 7:20 Belt ran from c1988-1993.
Cadbury's Breakfast Television
This was a syndicated programme belt that was produced for Cadbury by the Silverbird Group. It was broadcast for roughly 2 hours on Saturday mornings. It featured a mix of cartoons and sitcoms, with the occasional movie on the last Saturday of the month or at public holidays. It ran from 1993-early 2000s. It featured these and other programmes:
Cartoons
Spiderman And His Amazing Friends Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Biker Mice From Mars Freakazoid Animaniacs Pinky & The Brain Dungeons & Dragons X-Men Justice League Batman: The Animated Series Superman: The Animated Series
Sitcoms
Rags To Riches George Living Single Out All Night The Jamie Foxx Show Getting Personal The Parenthood In The House Suddenly Susan Sparks On Our Own Family Matters Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
and many more.
Cadbury's Breakfast Television was cancelled after the Cadbury/Bunmi Oni financial crisis of the early/mid-2000s. By that time, The Silverbird Group, the producers of the programme belt, had already established their own tv station.
Tv Africa
TV Africa was a pan-african free-to-air tv content provider/distributor which aimed to displace Multichoice as the largest pan-african tv company. It provided a mix of cartoons, sports, sitcoms and drama series that were rebroadcasted on free-to-air terrestrial channels across Africa. I can't remember most of the programmes, but their programme line up included:
Taxi Driver Home Sweet Home English Premier League
TV Africa was in air from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, but its business model was not good enough to enable it challenge Multichoice and it was eventually liquidated. Successor companies invluded Proudly Africa Media (in West Africa) and One Media (in Southern Africa).
African Broadcasting Network (ABN)
ABN's programmes were rebroadcast on AIT in the early 2000s. They showed soap operas and sitcoms. I can't remember any of their soaps, but their sitcoms included:
The Parkers Cosby (not to be confused with The Cosby Show) Kids Say The Darndest Things Damon Becker Taina One On One Everybody Loves Raymond
SANWO-OLU APPROVES MULTIMILLION NAIRA UPGRADE OF LAGOS TELEVISION
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved a multimillion Naira upgrade of key infrastructure at the Lagos Television (LTV) as part of a comprehensive plan to reposition the State-owned television station for national and international competitiveness.
According to a release by Mr. Rasaq Musbau, the Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State Infrastructure Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA), the Project Management Team from the Agency recently went on an inspection tour of the complex and expressed satisfaction with the pace of work.
He explained that the facility is now a beehive of activities carried out by construction workers to deliver a phased plan to revamp the 41-year-old television station.
Musbau stated that the upgrade entails the modernisation of the entire complex as the first step towards a complete turnaround of the station's facilities.
His words: “Governor Sanwo-Olu has put together an ambitious plan to completely turn around the television station and make it compete with some of the best privately-owned stations in the country. The ongoing infrastructure revamp is the first phase of the turnaround plan”.
“Lagos Television was established in October 1980 during the administration of the first civilian Governor of the State, late Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande. LTV was the first in Nigeria to operate on two frequencies or bands - VHF and UHF - but is now on UHF Channel 35. It is also the first State-owned television station on cable satellite DStv Channel 256 and Startimes Channel 104”, the Director added.
Recall that 14 Fire Service Stations, FADAMA, Lagos State Drivers Institute (Lagos Island and Oshodi complex), Local Government Service Commission and Public Service Office are among other facilities currently under renovation by the Lagos State Government, through the State Infrastructure Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA).
The Federal Government on Saturday recommenced its Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Lagos State.
Flagging-off the 5th and 6th Bi-Monthly payment in Lagos State, Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Mrs Yetunde Arobieke, said that 6,810 persons/households had benefited from the programme since inception.
Arobieke said that the CCT supported the poor and vulnerable to improve consumption, with the aim of reducing poverty, preventing vulnerable households from falling further down the poverty line and building their resilience to withstand shocks.
”The programme is to facilitate the transfer of N5,000 per month to beneficiaries, which is paid on a bi-monthly basis (every two months), with payment given to all eligible households selected from the National Social Register.
”The livelihood component of this programme is fundamentally aimed at enabling beneficiaries to establish a sustainable means of livelihood.
”A total number of 6,810 beneficiaries from six targeted LGAs (Apapa, Amuwo-Odofin, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos Island and Badagry) have been benefitting from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Lagos State since its implementation,” she said.
The commissioner, who is the State Focal Person on the National Social Investment Programme, said that Lagos State was among the 34 states benefitting from the programme, due to the effort, support and inspiration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
LASG RESUMES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER TO BENEFICIARIES
... Flags off Disbursement at Apapa Local Government
Lagos State, one of the 34 States in Nigeria selected for the cash transfer programme of the Federal Government, has resumed disbursement of funds with the flag-off of the 5th and 6th bi-monthly payment exercise to beneficiary households.
The successful participation of Lagos State in the previous tranches was due to the effort and support of Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, who had put his weight behind the State Operations Coordinating Units (SOCU) in establishing the Register of Poor and Vulnerable Households in the State, provided office space and the required staff for State Cash Transfer Unit to carry out its activities.
The State’s Focal Person on National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) and Commissioner for Ministry of Wealth Creation & Employment, Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke, who flagged off the payments in Apapa Local Government recently, said the Conditional Cash Transfer supports the poor and vulnerable to improve consumption, reduce poverty and prevent the households from falling further down the poverty line by building their resilience to withstand shocks.
The Commissioner added that the National Cash Transfer Programme (NCTP) is one of the components of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) domiciled under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development saddled with the task of responding to deficiencies in capacity and lack of investment in human capital of poor and vulnerable households.
Arobieke explained that the NCTP programme, which is also supported by the World Bank, focuses on the poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria as identified through a combination of geographic and community-based targeting mechanisms.
She stated further that the identified household’s socio-economic data is subjected to Proxy Means Testing (PMT) for ranking the poor and vulnerable in the National Social Register (NSR).
According to the Commissioner, “The programme is to facilitate the transfer of #5,000 per month to beneficiaries, paid bi-monthly to all eligible households selected from the National Social Register (NSR)”.
“The livelihood component of this programme is fundamentally aimed at enabling beneficiaries to establish a sustainable means of livelihood with a total number of 6,810 beneficiaries from six targeted LGAs - Apapa, Amuwo-Odofin, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos Island and Badagry - benefitting from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Lagos State since its implementation”, she disclosed.
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Ernie Watts - Chariots Of Fire