{"id":1019309,"date":"2022-03-12T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/12\/reno-omokri-calls-out-dstv-for-assigning-channel-419-to-nta-station\/"},"modified":"2022-03-12T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T09:15:27","slug":"reno-omokri-calls-out-dstv-for-assigning-channel-419-to-nta-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/12\/reno-omokri-calls-out-dstv-for-assigning-channel-419-to-nta-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Reno Omokri Calls Out DSTV For Assigning Channel 419 To NTA Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_822947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-822947\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-822947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reno Omokri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Presidential aide and activist Reno Omokri has reacted to DSTV assigning channel 419 to the Nigerian government-owned broadcaster, NTA<\/p>\n<p>He said it\u2019s DSTV\u2019s way of making a mockery of and demarketing Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The number \u201c419\u201d refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal code dealing with fraud and the charges for offenders.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Nigerians refer to any form of financial fraud or scam as \u201c419\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reno said that DSTV assigning channel 419 to the Nigerian Television Authority \u201ccarries a very powerful subliminal message\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His Instagram post reads;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy has DSTV, a South African company operating in Nigeria, chosen to give the Nigerian Television Authority, @NTANetwork, the frequency channel of 419?<\/p>\n<p>That is NOT a coincidence. It is a deliberate action. It is subversive and carries a very powerful subliminal message that demarkets Nigeria as a brand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rlfqsxvu rlfqsxvu-post-inline rlfqsxvu-float-center rlfqsxvu-align-center rlfqsxvu-column-1 rlfqsxvu-clearfix no-bg-box-model\">\n<p>It is a mockery of our nation and its citizens. And if Lai Mohammed was alive to his responsibilities, @DSTVNigeria ought to be answering questions!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Broadcast Commission, that ought to have spotted this, are instead more focused on sanctioning radio and TV stations that criticise the Buhari administration. What a pity!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See his post below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/419.JPG\" alt=\"post\" width=\"589\" height=\"941\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reno Omokri Former Presidential aide and activist Reno Omokri has reacted to DSTV assigning channel 419 to the Nigerian government-owned broadcaster, NTA He said it\u2019s DSTV\u2019s way of making a mockery of and demarketing Nigeria. The number \u201c419\u201d refers to the section of the Nigerian Criminal code dealing with fraud and the charges for offenders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1019310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}