The Kano State Government has said that more than N300 million has been set aside to digitalise the state’s radio station in 2016.
The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Muhammed Garba, said the money was out of the N517 million proposed for the ministry in the 2016 budget proposal.
Garba made this disclosure to newsmen on Tuesday after he appeared before the state House of Assembly to defend the budget estimate for the ministry.
According to him, the effort to digitise the radio station is to meet the target for the digitalisation of all media outfits in the country.
The commissioner also disclosed that the state’s newspaper, Triumph Publishing Company Ltd would begin full time digital operation by March 2016.
Garba explained that more than N80m was also proposed in the budget to ensure the completion of the ongoing digitisation of the Abubakar Rimi Television.
According to him, the project is part of the measures by the State Government to boost the socio-economic and revenue generation in the state. (NAN)
