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Quadri Yahya
In its bid to enhance news coverage in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria has deployed drones to six states in some areas of the country.
NAN explained that the development was in it bid to serve its stakeholders, especially subscribers more satisfactorily.
NAN Managing Director, Mr Buki Ponle said this while speaking at the 2021 annual management retreat of NAN in Ilorin on Wednesday.
Mr Ponle said the agency has acquired technology that will facilitate the planned coverage of especially where violence is involved in an event.
He said, “With the ongoing measures put in place to enhance service delivery, I can confidently say that we are now poised to be perfectly quintessential, and be more relevant to our stakeholders,
especially our subscribers.
“With our newly acquired technology for our multi-media unit, we shall continue to make a marked difference in the
pursuit of positive reporting and solutions journalism.
“Drones as you know is an enhanced technology to get to areas that are difficult to penetrate. It could be a crowd, demonstration; be it peaceful or violent demonstration. The drones can get there to cover and get the story. It’s just to improve on our coverage and to show that we’re aligning with advanced technology.
He further said, “First, we want to deploy about six to such areas as Abuja, Lagos among other areas where activities are continuously in progress. It’s just to serve our clients better and to ensure that our reporters are up to date with advanced technology.”
