Nigeria: Imperatives of a Second Broadcast Network

22 January 2003
opinion

Time, they say, heals every wound. Time changes every situation. Time is the difference between yesterday and today, the difference between birth and mortality. Time.

Last year in Minna, at the Review of the National Broadcasting Code, now known as the Nigerian Broadcasting Code, adrenalin boiled over when the issue of a second national network was broached. While the NBC gave copious reasons for their opposition to such development, a number of private broadcast operators were vehement on the need for a second operator, arguing that only such development would actually give full expression to the term, deregulation. There wasn't actually a consensus but time is making a number of people to give the issue a second thought. Time.

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