Set agenda on power sector, Iredia urges media

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Tonnie Iredia

By Edith Ike-Eboh

Former Director-General of Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Prof. Tonnnie Iredia, has urged the media to set agenda for positive result through reporting the power sector.

Iredia made the call at a Power Sector Conversation organised by Reboot, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), in Abuja on Friday.

He said that there was the need for continuous report on the issues of power and its importance to a nation.

He said that the media needed to study what the audience needed to know and used the right language while consistently reporting the issues.

Iredia added that reporters should adopt the principle of “force multiplication’’ and set strategic agenda for creating awareness on issues in the sector.

“We have to find a way to make power sector reporting the issue of the moment instead of politics.

“We must get people to talk about these issues regularly by the awareness we create and this will make the power very…



Source: News Agency of Nigeria