NTA/Startimes JV: Senate queries 11-year-old partnership

The Senate on Monday queried the unprofitable relationship between the state-owned Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and the Chinese PayTv Startimes calling for a review of its terms of engagement.

The Senate position was predicated upon revelations that after 11 years of partnership between the NTA and Startimes the relationship has not recorded any profit but losses.

ALSO READ: Court arraigns boat owner over drowning of 12 passengers in Lagos

The Senate wonder how this could be possible in spite of huge funding to the tune of N10bn on the NTA by the FG.

Co-Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance and National Planning, Senator, Solomon Adeola and Senator Ayo Akinyelure expressed their displeasure over the report by the Director-General of the NTA, Mallam Mohammed Ibn Yakubu who said the relationship between them was not productive.

YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

1,126 Killed, 380 Abducted In 7 Northern States —Amnesty Int’l
The GLOBAL watchdog, Amnesty International, on Sunday, claimed at least 1,126 rural dwellers in seven northern states of Kaduna, Katsina, Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara, have lost their lives to rampaging insecurity in the zone since the beginning of the year. In a statement highlighting its recent findings, about 380 villagers were also reportedly abducted for ransom within the months under review, with victims’ relatives… senate

MONDAY LINES: El-Rufai Goes To Law School
I have this Igbo friend whom I call Omo Oduduwa. He speaks the Yoruba language with a competence that claps for whoever his teacher is – and he flaunts it. Every expression that shoots out of his trunk is rooted in wisdom. He once told me in Yoruba that his enemy was ill but he was the one taking medicine for the illness (ó re òtá mi sùgbón èmi ni mo nl’ògun). That statement I remembered when I read Professor Ishaq Akintola of… senate