{"id":3538,"date":"2023-09-05T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2023-09-05T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T05:33:54","slug":"demolition-imminent-as-rivers-government-shuts-down-ait-raypower-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/09\/05\/demolition-imminent-as-rivers-government-shuts-down-ait-raypower-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition imminent as Rivers Government Shuts Down AIT, Raypower Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State Government has shut down the Africa Independent Television, (AIT), and Raypower FM operations in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>Making this known on their official X account on Sunday, the media company said the State Government shut down its operations through contracted telecommunications engineers accompanied by armed security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contractors disconnected the wave guard from the antenna on the mast while riggers were seen dismantling the mast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, bulldozers were deployed to demolish the Transmitter Complex at DAAR Communications PLC Broadcast Centre,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The telecommunications\u2019 contractor\u2019s official told the organization that they were working on a directive from above to commence demolition on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The State government had in March given 48-hours quit notice to DAAR Communication Plc, stating that the area has been mapped out for GRA phase 5 Ozuoba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State Government has shut down the Africa Independent Television, (AIT), and Raypower FM operations in Port Harcourt. Making this known on their official X account on Sunday, the media company said the State Government shut down its operations through contracted telecommunications engineers accompanied by armed security operatives. \u201cThe contractors disconnected the wave guard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}