Written by Muhammad Sada & Stanley Onyekwere(Peoples Daily)
The National Broadcasting Commission
(NBC), last Monday, kicked off its 9th biennial Conference of Africa
Broadcasters tagged Africast 2012, with the theme: “Content Rules” in
Abuja.
Stakeholders at the event called for
proper and effective establishment of community broadcasting and more
local content in programmes.
Stakeholders made up of different
interest groups, equipment manufacturers and dealers as well as policy
makers, communication scholars and professionals of the broadcast
industry in Africa, are participating to examine broadcast agenda for
Africa, provide a market place of ideas, hardware and software
technologies in the industry.
Chairman, Broadcasting Organisation of
Nigeria (BON), Alhaji Abubakar Jijiwa, said the importance of community
broadcasting as well as the role it plays in the positive development of
the broadcasting sector could not be over emphaised, hence the need for
stakeholders to pay adequate attention to the area.
The Speaker, House of Representatives,
Aminu Tambuwal, who was represented by Hon. Leo Ogoh, who declared the
conference open, pledged the support of the leadership of the house in
ensuring that the necessary steps are taken to boost and upgrade the
broadcasting sector.
Earlier, in a remark, Senator Enyinaya
Abaribe, chairman, senate information and media committee, called on all
stakeholders in the society to be careful with how things are presented
on the air waves, as according to him, it influences youth negatively
most often than not, and sends the wrong messages about the people to
the world.
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