Bauchi State Approves Digitization of Own Media to Compete Globally.
By Adamu IMAM Bauchi
Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has approved the appointment of managing directors of Bauchi Radio Corporation BRC and Bauchi state television authority BATV and the digitization of the two state owned media to compete favorably with their contemporaries across the globe.
The state governor who was speaking at the reintroduce long abandoned ministerial press briefing 2024 held during the opening ceremony at the auditorium complex of Abubakar Umar State Secretariat on Monday.
The governor was ably and adequately represented at the occasion by the Bauchi state head of civil service Alhaji Haruna Ningi. with the theme: "Actualizing the dream of the new Bauchi Project"
The governor while addressing the gathering at opening ceremony of the ministerial press briefing says "I want to comment the ministry of information, the commissioner and the entire management for their foresight and initiatives by reintroducing the long abandoned tradition of ministerial press briefing"
"It became imperative to review our performance as a government, having spent one year in second term of this administration It is indeed and underscore our unwavering commitment administration for transparency and accountability" he added.
I therefore pleased to note that "in spite the challenges of funding faced by the state own media, BATV and BRC have been to promoting and projecting the image and the activities of government, considering the role of the two media outfits in providing the feed back between the general publics and government".
Bala maintained that, Government have directed they should be fully upgraded, digitized and the studios should be fully renovated, "I have also approved the appointment and substantive managing directors for the two stations, to provide leadership efficiently and effectively"
Government has also intervene in the of increasing funding especially to the Bauchi state radio corporation in other to address problems of diesel supply to the station ai am pleased to inform you in no distance time that Bauchi television authority will be link to the satellite in order to be able to compete with it contemporaries across the globe,
He said his government are making sure that all other media organizations will also enjoy the necessary supports they deserved
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