Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has unveiled the Liberty Television and 103.3FM Abuja Radio Digital Studios, owned by ATAR Communications Nigeria Limited.
Osinbajo, while performing the inauguration, said he felt honoured, as it was a great thing to be associated with excellence, with high achievement and with vision and far-sightedness. He added that the event was auspicious occasion, because it was a historic day in broadcasting in Nigeria.
The Vice President said that he was proud because his brother and friend, Dr. Tijjani Ramalan, founder and Executive Chairman of ATAR Communications was making waves. He added that Ramalan was his classmate from form-one in secondary school.
He acknowledged that Liberty Television is already rated among the top ten in Nigeria; the station now reaches Plateau, Osun, Kaduna, Kwara States and Abuja.
Earlier in his welcome address, Ramalan said that Liberty Television came into National, Regional and International Broadcast Industry in 2014. He noted that it is a private and independent news, current affairs and infotainment channel that has carved a broad audience-base in Nigeria, especially among the Hausa-speaking audience across Northern Nigeria, West and Central Africa.
He said that Liberty Television broadcast in English 30 percent and Hausa 70 percent, and also on multiple media platforms.
