Niger State Government,has completed plann to reposition the state own media outfit to Cope with the trend of media digitisation in the Country .
The Commissioner for information and strategies Dr Emmanuel Musa Umar stated this during a visit to Voice of Nigeria’s North Central zonal Office in Minna the State Capital.
The Commissioner say’s “Our main goal in the state presently is to upgrade the State Television, Radio Stations and state own Newspaper from their present situation”.
Most of the facilities especially in the radio station and the print media are analog and need to catch up with modern technology ”
He further said plans are under way by the state Government to upgrade and convert the state radio buster stations across the State to a functional FM stations.
“The FM stations if Established will bust information dissemination to the rural communities in the State”.
While commending the state government for approving broadcast in Fulfulde Language for Fulani ethnic group across the state, The Niger State Commissioner for information say’s ” Fulani ethnic group are among the largest ethnic group scartred across the state, hence the duty of the state government to always reach out to them in a Language they will better understand”..
The Commissioner who was impressed with the services of Voice of Nigeria which broadcast in eight Nigerian Langues of English,French,Arabic, Swahili, as well as Hausa, Fulfulde ,Yoruba and Igbo Languages, mentioned that the state government will henceforth partner with the Voice of Nigeria as part of it’s ongoing plans in revamping the media sector in the State.
