Radio Biafra, which had
been operating illegally from an unknown location had been successfully stopped
by the Federal Government.
Dr Yemi Folasade-Esan, the
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Information, stated 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.
“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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