BY Jimoh Babatunde
Chairman, DAAR Communications Group, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has decried the attitude of showing foreign television channels to the detriment of local television stations in Nigerian hotels.
Speaking while receiving the Director-General of Nigeria Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC, Otunba Segun Runsewe in his office, Dokpesi said he is a believer in the celebration of black man anywhere in the world.
He called for collaboration between NTDC and National Broadcasting Commission to make it mandatory for every hotel in the country to have local stations, adding that this was the standard in other countries he had visited, especially in Europe and America.
He described Runsewe as a lone voice in tourism promotion in Nigeria, promising that he will do his bit by working assiduously with NTDC to ensure the promotion of local content via indigenous television channels as a way of promoting Nigeria's rich culture and values.
While presenting a book, Nigeria, a pictorial compendium on the country and other souvenirs to Chief Dokpesi, Runsewe said part of his visit to DAAR Group was to request for DAAR satellite decoders to be distributed to hotels and hospitality as a way of opening a window to enhance tourism promotion by broadcasting programmes with local content value.
Vanguard Nigeria