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    NTA Sokoto Clocks 50, Stages Re-union Event

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    NTA Sokoto Clocks 50, Stages Re-union Event

    Nigerian Television Authority Sokoto marks its 50th anniversary of existence this weekend at the station’s zonal centre in Sokoto.

    According to the press release by Dr Danladi Bako, Member, Organizing Committee of the golden anniversary, NTA Sokoto was created as Northwest Television in September 1975 and was headed by mercurial broadcast veteran, Alhaji Adamu Augie, as its first Chief Executive.

    Speaking at a pre-event interview, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee and one of the pioneer staff, Dr Peter Igho MFR, praised the station’s current management and staff for upholding the high standards set at its inception.

    Peter Igho, one of Nigeria’s finest and most awarded all-time television producers/directors, assured that the re-union ceremony would be well organized and well attended, especially with the assurances of high-profile personalities and state governments that would be part of the golden anniversary celebration.

    Nigerian Television Authority Sokoto is renowned for a “tradition of excellence” in its content programming, covering huge award-winning dramas and documentaries at the national and international festivals.The station also contributed high level producers of great television series of the eighties such as “Cockcrow at Dawn”, “Bala Miller Show,” both products of Peter Igho’s brain.

    The station boasts of breeding such exclusively talented role-models like late Senator Adamu Augie; Senator Ibrahim Gobir; Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim, Director General, FRC; as well as Director General, NTA News and Sports guru, Executive Director, NTA, Alhaji Kere Ahmed; exceptionally creative Peter Igho, who later became Director General, National Lottery Regulatory Commission; Danladi Bako, former Director General, National Broadcasting Commission; and also Usman Magawata, former Director General, Nigerian Television Authority.

    The ceremony takes place on Saturday, 13 September, 2025 in Sokoto and Olorogun Peter Igho, who was recently appointed Kaakakin Daular Usmaniyya, promises that the re-union will not only be nostalgic but will also be a platform for re-invigorating the content delivery targets of Nigerian television in general and reasserting NTA as the creative source of the Nigerian media and broadcast industry.

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