Buhari Approves License of online radio and TV stations

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the license of online radio and television stations.

In a statement by the Media assistant to the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Segun Adeyemi, the initiative was disclosed by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city, when he received members of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on a courtesy visit, on friday while responding to a request made by Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON for the review of the Broadcasting Code.

“I just want to use this opportunity to inform you that Mr. President has actually already approved a review of the Broadcast Code that is going to take care of many of the issues you have already raised here. In particular, the President has approved that Web TVs and radio stations, including foreign broadcasters beaming signals into Nigeria, will be licensed because we must bring sanity into this industry.

“Mr. President has also approved a wide range of reforms in the industry which, at the appropriate platform, I will let you know,” he said.

He added: "I have said it on many platforms that this administration is not about to gag the press. No!

But we will appeal to the press to please self-regulate for the sake of this country and also for the sake of the industry itself.”