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.
President Muhammadu Buhari
“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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