LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Television Authority (NTA) has successfully secured the exclusive broadcasting rights for the highly anticipated 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The monumental deal guarantees that every moment of the continental football extravaganza will be aired on NTA. The announcement comes as a surprise after Multichoice, the owners of DSTV and…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have killed a businessman identified as Emeka Onyeji and kidnapped his teenage daughter, Precious, in Gusau, Zamfara State. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded Emeka’s residence in the Bayan NTA area of Gusau on Tuesday night, June 13, 2023, stabbed him to death with a sword and whisked away…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Network Centre in Port Harcourt , Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, has been kidnapped by yet to be identified persons. Available details of how she was kidnapped are sketchy at the time of filing this report. But according to a post by Mrs Osinachi…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Senate has uncovered an alleged multi-billion Naira fraud in the joint venture operations between, the Nigerian Television Authority(NTA) and a Chinese Satellite Pay TV, StarTime. The allegation came up when the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning scrutinized the spending and expenditure of the Nigerian Television Authority for…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has explained that 35 aides were not sacked from the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo but that they were redeployed to a new ministry. The President, who fielded questions from NTA State House Correspondent at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja,…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian veteran sports journalist and retired Director Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akinloye Oyebanj, has died at the age of 62. His family confirmed to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Oyebanji, passed on at National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday morning after protracted battle with heart failure. Mr Bukoye Oyebanji and Dr Steve…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Television Authority has been removed from the largest digital satellite television service platform in Europe, Sky Limited. A visit to Sky’s website showed that NTA had been barred indefinitely from airing on Channel 794. A message on Sky’s website read in part, “794: NTA International; currently temporarily removed from EPG…