Government-owned Media Establishments to be repositioned for Better Efficiency- FG

 

Casmir Obiegbolu: 12:05 PM 23rd March 2016

Alhaji Lai Muhammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has said that all Federal Government-owned media establishments will soon be repositioned for better efficiency.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that all Federal Government-owned media establishments will soon be repositioned for better efficiency.

This was stated in a statement the minister issued in Doha and which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.

The statement was made available by the Special Adviser to the Minister on Media, Segun Adeyemi.

NAN recalls that the minister on Sunday visited the sprawling Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Centre in Doha.

Mohammed stated he was not glad with the efficiency of the federal government-owned media institutions and had determined to reposition them for higher effectivity and to be extra aggressive.

Mohammed was carried out spherical the power by Al Jazeera’s Director, Mounir Daymi, with different officers of the centre.

The assertion quoted the minister as saying that his go to was in furtherance of his efforts to forge coaching and improvement collaboration with the worldwide information community.

“We would like a model new tv station that might be among the many greatest on the earth and it’s attainable,” the minister stated.

He stated he would quickly invite the officers of the Media Coaching and Improvement Centre to Nigeria for a necessity-evaluation go to.

He conceded that the public media had enough personnel working hard to drive the agenda of the Buhari-administration but said that a lot needed to be done to fill the skills’ gaps existing among the media workers.