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Looking at other TV stations' look, you'll spit on Nigeria Government. Everything is just so messy and embarrassing. I compared the studio with other private stations and i realized this country is gone and has no hope.

Is this a picture of 2026 ?

It's beyond embarrassing. And very unfortunate. The thing is people feel that mediocrity and corruption affects the simple masses on the streets, but the thing is that mediocrity seeps into everything we do. As it is, Nigeria has no defense systems and nothing to show for it's oil wealth. If you trace the reasons why, mediocrity and corruption is at the foundation of that. We have nothing. We are just sitting ducks for when the west realises they have the power to wipe us all out and take what they need.

jerryunit48:
Is this a picture of 2026 ?

Yes, i snaaped it during this program when i accompanied them.

Meektunz:
Looking at other TV stations' look, you'll spit on Nigeria Government. Everything is just so messy and embarrassing. I compared the studio with other private stations and i realized this country is gone and has no hope.

MR GOVT GOVT GOVT GOVT.

FOX NEWS THAT YOU WATCH EVERYDAY TO WORSHIP TRUMP, IS IT THE US GOVT THAT OWNS IT?

CNN, IS IT AMERICAN GOVT THAT OWNS IT?

Is it not private companies?

What stops YOU from forming a consortium to start a station?

Or the guys that came together to form CNN, they have two heads, abi?

MR GOVT GOVT GOVT GOVT GOVT.

Kushites:
MR GOVT GOVT GOVT GOVT.

FOX NEWS THAT YOU WATCH EVERYDAY TO WORSHIP TRUMP, IS IT THE US GOVT THAT OWNS IT?

CNN, IS IT AMERICAN GOVT THAT OWNS IT?

Is it not private companies?

What stops YOU from forming a consortium to start a station?

MR GOVT GOVT GOVT GOVT GOVT.

must u defend everything? Do u know how much allocation these people getting yearly?

princeade86:
must u defend everything? Do u know how much allocation these people getting yearly?

What allocation? They get a pittance, and have always gotten a pittance. The govt simply can't afford to spend big money to make NTA what you think it should be.

Go and see how much FOX NEWS has to spend each year, and compare it to your 'NTA allocation'. You'll be embarrassed.

Abeg forget. The govt priorities are roads, schools, hospitals etc, not NTA.

Why is govt even SUPPOSED to have expertise in running a TV station??

It's really not their job.

If you want 'CNN-LEVEL', do what those who started CNN did. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GOVT.

It's Private Sector.

Judge urself with ur li es.

Kushites:
What allocation? They get a pittance, and have always gotten a pittance. The govt simply can't afford to spend big money to make NTA what you think it should be.

Go and see how much FOX NEWS has to spend each year, and compare it to your 'NTA allocation'. You'll be embarrassed.

Abeg forget. The govt priorities are roads, schools, hospitals etc, not NTA.

Why is govt even SUPPOSED to have expertise in running a TV station??

IT'S REALLY NOT THEIR JOB.

If you want 'CNN-LEVEL', do what those who started CNN did. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GOVT.

It's Private Sector.

The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) was allocated a total of ₦21.3 billion in the 2025 federal budget.
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2025 Budget Breakdown for NTA:
Based on the 2025 budget proposal, the ₦21.3 billion allocation is divided into the following main areas:
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Personnel Cost (Salaries): ₦9.48 billion
Allowances and Social Distributions: ₦7.35 billion
Capital Projects: Approx. ₦1.5 billion (including, for example, ₦149 million for DSNG uplink facilities, ₦193 million for content acquisition, and ₦137 million for studio equipment for state capital stations).
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Contextual Information:
Historical Funding: In the 10 years prior to 2021, the federal government invested a total of ₦67 billion into NTA, with a significant portion going toward personnel costs.
2020 Allocation: In 2020, NTA received ₦6.6 billion, with ₦6.1 billion for personnel and only ₦303.8 million for capital projects.
Comparison: In 2025, NTA, alongside the National Orientation Agency (NOA - ₦24.4 billion) and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN - ₦21.5 billion), accounted for over 60% of the total budget for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation.

princeade86:
Judge urself with ur li es.The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) was allocated a total of ₦21.3 billion in the 2025 federal budget.
Intelpoint
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2025 Budget Breakdown for NTA:
Based on the 2025 budget proposal, the ₦21.3 billion allocation is divided into the following main areas:
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Personnel Cost (Salaries): ₦9.48 billion
Allowances and Social Distributions: ₦7.35 billion
Capital Projects: Approx. ₦1.5 billion (including, for example, ₦149 million for DSNG uplink facilities, ₦193 million for content acquisition, and ₦137 million for studio equipment for state capital stations).
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Contextual Information:
Historical Funding: In the 10 years prior to 2021, the federal government invested a total of ₦67 billion into NTA, with a significant portion going toward personnel costs.
2020 Allocation: In 2020, NTA received ₦6.6 billion, with ₦6.1 billion for personnel and only ₦303.8 million for capital projects.
Comparison: In 2025, NTA, alongside the National Orientation Agency (NOA - ₦24.4 billion) and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN - ₦21.5 billion), accounted for over 60% of the total budget for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation.

While I am surprised that a studio could look like that, then I am no longer surprised when a paltry N137m is for studio equipment for states capital stations in the whole country.

Ask yourself if N137m is enough for even 1 state capital station?

It means every state capital station of NTA must depend on their own share of the N137m to procure or upgrade existing studio. Hence why you have such obvious makeshift studio.

That is nonsense.

Will the government commit more money to such when it is yet to better fund Healthcare and other infrastructural projects? No!

The respective states NTA stations should pursue IGR from its advert slots and programme slots.

princeade86:
Judge urself with ur li es.The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) was allocated a total of ₦21.3 billion in the 2025 federal budget.
Intelpoint
Intelpoint
2025 Budget Breakdown for NTA:
Based on the 2025 budget proposal, the ₦21.3 billion allocation is divided into the following main areas:
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Personnel Cost (Salaries): ₦9.48 billion
Allowances and Social Distributions: ₦7.35 billion
Capital Projects: Approx. ₦1.5 billion (including, for example, ₦149 million for DSNG uplink facilities, ₦193 million for content acquisition, and ₦137 million for studio equipment for state capital stations).
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Contextual Information:
Historical Funding: In the 10 years prior to 2021, the federal government invested a total of ₦67 billion into NTA, with a significant portion going toward personnel costs.
2020 Allocation: In 2020, NTA received ₦6.6 billion, with ₦6.1 billion for personnel and only ₦303.8 million for capital projects.
Comparison: In 2025, NTA, alongside the National Orientation Agency (NOA - ₦24.4 billion) and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN - ₦21.5 billion), accounted for over 60% of the total budget for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation.

THANKS FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID.

That your N21 billion Naira amounts to $15 million.

I asked ChatGPT AI what was CNN's annual budget:

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CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

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So a TV network that receives $15 million a year, and one that receives $2 BILLION a year, which one do you think will look sharper and snazzier, with more steeze and swag when you watch it?

Kushites:
THANKS FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID.

That your N21 billion Naira amounts to $15 million.

I asked ChatGPT AI what was CNN's annual budget:

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CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

- AI

So a TV network that receives $15 million a year, and one that receives $2 BILLION a year, which one do you think will look sharper and snazzier, with more steeze and swag when you watch it?

You don't even need to delve deep and far.

From the budget, only N1.5b is for capital projects out of which 137m is for studio equipment for all of the state capital stations (36 NTA Stations).

That is a mockery.

Yet, just seeing the annual budget of N21.3b, Nigerians will call it a waste of funds without seeing how it sums up and how each expenditure is very out of touch with modern pricing realities.

However, some Ogas at the top will still attempt to corner something out of nothing.

Most Nigerians have this idea that govt is where the money is at.

They are so wrong. Nigeria's annual budget is $40 billion.

But GDP is $400 billion.

That's the Private Sector.

Oil and gas accounts for less than 15% of GDP.

So those hundreds of billions of dollars is all private sector-generated. So the private sector is WHERE THE MONEY IS AT, if you want to form a CNN-grade network, or anything big, in fact, in Nigeria.

If you can leverage the private sector by forming a consortium with qualified people, and you can make a business case for such a station to big companies, it's BOOM TIME! Big money comes in, and you do it.

Go to America, UK etc. Virtually nothing is run by the govt. It's all private sector, from stadiums to airports to power plants to railways to TV networks.

We call ourselves a capitalist economy, yet we seem to have a communist/socialist outlook in which the FG is expected to provide everything.

Kushites:
THANKS FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID.

That your N21 billion Naira amounts to $15 million.

I asked ChatGPT AI what was CNN's annual budget:

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CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

- AI

So a TV network that receives $15 million a year, and one that receives $2 BILLION a year, which one do you think will look sharper and snazzier, with more steeze and swag when you watch it?

stop sh@@ting urself for legs. Tell me any investigation NTA always do. Tell me the special things coming from NTA

Throwback:
While I am surprised that a studio could look like that, then I am no longer surprised when a paltry N137m is for studio equipment for states capital stations in the whole country.

Ask yourself if N137m is enough for even 1 state capital station?

It means every state capital station of NTA must depend on their own share of the N137m to procure or upgrade existing studio. Hence why you have such obvious makeshift studio.

That is nonsense.

Will the government commit more money to such when it is yet to better fund Healthcare and other infrastructural projects? No!

The respective states NTA stations should pursue IGR from its advert slots and programme slots.

tell us how much NTA is generating for this country.

Kushites:
THANKS FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID.

That your N21 billion Naira amounts to $15 million.

I asked ChatGPT AI what was CNN's annual budget:

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CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

- AI

So a TV network that receives $15 million a year, and one that receives $2 BILLION a year, which one do you think will look sharper and snazzier, with more steeze and swag when you watch it?

do u even go to school at all or u just want to defend what is defenceless. They boldly say what cnn generating as revenues, did u see where they put any allocation that they receiving? Stop sounding like seyi law pls.

princeade86:
stop sh@@ting urself for legs. Tell me any investigation NTA always do. Tell me the special things coming from NTA

Sorry, I've no idea what you're talking about.

Kushites:
Sorry, I've no idea what you're talking about.

but u said cnn collecting $2b allocation na. So bring out the prove

jerryunit48:
Is this a picture of 2026 ?

Omo..... 😂

Meektunz:
Looking at other TV stations' look, you'll spit on Nigeria Government. Everything is just so messy and embarrassing. I compared the studio with other private stations and i realized this country is gone and has no hope.

That is a green screen background which replaced in post-production. I believe it should be better but this is not what you will see when watching on tv

princeade86:
do u even go to school at all or u just want to defend what is defenceless. They boldly say what cnn generating as revenues, did u see where they put any allocation that they receiving? Stop sounding like seyi law pls.

NTA is a public service established by the govt and run by civil servants.

It's not designed to ''generate revenues" like CNN.

Because the U.S. economy is huge, companies spend billions of dollars on advertising, which supports large media budgets. Nigeria’s advertising market is much smaller, so NTA receives far less commercial revenue.

CNN is a global commercial media corporation, while NTA is a government-funded national broadcaster in a smaller advertising market. That structural difference explains the funding gap.

princeade86:
but u said cnn collecting $2b allocation na. So bring out the prove

Where did I mention ''allocation'' for CNN?

If Nigeria was property of one person…. Nigeria will be competing with Singapore today but because Nigerians see Nigeria as a cash cow for the elites, even the average citizen wants to take his own pound of flesh…. So that’s why you will be hearing things like

“ provision of writing materials for annual meeting 800B naira “

Something that won’t cost up to 35k naira including cost of transport

In that 800B naira, the president will take 500B naira inside… that’s how they’ll be taking until nothing is left to buy the writing materials

Your Ignorance of how studios work is no defense for this thrash being spewed on the government. Even CNN use Green screen. The movies you watch all use green screen. If you have any other thing to to say, please do? Everything is blame game to you guys. Haha! If you don't know how studios work, please ask questions. When the program was being aired, did you see the green clothes there? So Aljazeera, Wion, BBC, Hollywood movies, are all rubish too abi? Coz they use green screen too

CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

Kushites:
Where did I mention ''allocation'' for CNN?

that's ur quotes

Throwback:
While I am surprised that a studio could look like that, then I am no longer surprised when a paltry N137m is for studio equipment for states capital stations in the whole country.

Ask yourself if N137m is enough for even 1 state capital station?

It means every state capital station of NTA must depend on their own share of the N137m to procure or upgrade existing studio. Hence why you have such obvious makeshift studio.

That is nonsense.

Will the government commit more money to such when it is yet to better fund Healthcare and other infrastructural projects? No!

The respective states NTA stations should pursue IGR from its advert slots and programme slots.

How many nta stations are under one state capital...


And is it every year they buy equipments? If that's a nta studio I see in that picture then pls they is absolutely no excuse for it looking that way in 2026.


This is too basic and mediocre and even I can set up a better looking studio with more limited resources.


Let's stop encouraging and accepting mediocrity in the most basic form.

This is a disgrace, disappointing and shameful!

Kushites:
THANKS FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID.

That your N21 billion Naira amounts to $15 million.

I asked ChatGPT AI what was CNN's annual budget:

................

CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

- AI

So a TV network that receives $15 million a year, and one that receives $2 BILLION a year, which one do you think will look sharper and snazzier, with more steeze and swag when you watch it?

you sound dumb here.

If you are looking for a case study to understand Nigeria... Just go to NTA.

This is a station that is more than 40 years. But look at TVC, look at channels... Less than 20 years, compared them with nta

Kushites:
What allocation? They get a pittance, and have always gotten a pittance. The govt simply can't afford to spend big money to make NTA what you think it should be.

Go and see how much FOX NEWS has to spend each year, and compare it to your 'NTA allocation'. You'll be embarrassed.

Abeg forget. The govt priorities are roads, schools, hospitals etc, not NTA.

Why is govt even SUPPOSED to have expertise in running a TV station??

It's really not their job.

If you want 'CNN-LEVEL', do what those who started CNN did. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GOVT.

It's Private Sector.

But NTA is government na, isn't the government supposed to have more money.

You bulabarians, na God go save una

What can I say? 😆😆 Corruption won finish them for there

Looking at the latest trends, NTA is undeniably chic. It's a solid, reliable choice for viewers.