VOICE OF NIGERIA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POWER, WILL ENHANCE DIGITAL SKILLS IN NIGERIA.
BY YUNUSA ABUGI
NIGERINFOBULLETIN: The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, Mallam Jibrin Baba Ndace, has restated the commitment of the agency to deepen its partnership with Galaxy Backbone (GBB).
Ndace stated this Friday when he led the management team of VON on a courtesy call on Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone Prof. Ibrahim A. Adeyanju.
“In the hand over note, I received on assumption of office, it was stated clearly that for me to succeed as director general I require total support from Galaxy backbone. And from day one I was very keen about deepening our relationship with Galaxy backbone. It is practically impossible for VON to maximize its potential without leveraging the robust relationship that I inherited. So I am determined to expand the scope of the relationship,” he said.
He said the media has a responsibility of telling the world the giant strides being achieved by the government and its agencies so as to shape positive narratives about Nigeria.
He added: “We have the responsibility of letting the world know the positive things that are happening in Nigeria including Galaxy Backbone. You mentioned some of the facilities like robust fiber optics cable in 28 states of Nigeria, Tier III and Tier IV data centres in Abuja and Kano that you have here in Galaxy Backbone. How many Nigerians know the place of Galaxy Backbone even in the continent of Africa? We need to tell our own stories, he stated.
Going further, the DG VON reiterated that “Decades ago our founding Fathers understood the place of media in shaping positive narratives about Nigeria and they place public broadcasting on the front burner, we need to go back to that".
“Voice of Nigeria is not just a media organization but it’s an instrument of national power which Nigeria with support from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will deploy to strategically position our country so that we would be respected among comity of nations.
“We are not saying we are a perfect country but again we are not the worst country in the world. So treat me the way I am,” he said.
In his remarks Prof. Adeyanju said the two agencies can work to improve the digital literacy level of the country.
“In galaxy backbone we pride ourselves as the digital backbone of the nation. With the infrastructure that we control which we use to defend the cyber space on behalf of the government, we can always collaborate in the interest of the nation.
“We also do a lot of training, the digital literacy in Nigeria is not at a level we want it to be and because we are an ICT infrastructure company, we train staff of both government and private agencies to improve their levels of ICT,” he said.
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