Nigerians have slammed the Nigeria Television Authority after its abysmal coverage of Nigeria vs Benin match yesterday.
NTA's coverage of Nigeria vs Benin yesterday
The Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) has been described as a national disgrace after its poor coverage of Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations match between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the Squirrels of Benin Republic.
This comes after South African cable sports channel Supersport had days back announced that they would be unable to continue broadcasting any Confederation of African Football content following the sudden cancellation of the deal between the continent’s football governing body and French company, Lagadere Sports.
The deal worth $1 billion was cancelled according to what CAF termed “breach of contract“.
Since then, Supersport has not aired the ongoing U-23 African Cup of Nations in Egypt and also did not air the Super Eagles game; a development which left many to rely on NTA to watch the AFCON qualifying match.
While trying to fill the vacuum, NTA decided to beam the live event, but it was an abysmal show because of the poor quality of pictures, graphics and commentary from the NTA team.
The camera angle was so poor that one couldn't see the players at the other far end of the pitch because the NTA crew members showed the match from the linesman's stand.
Nigerians used the hashtag #ShameOnNTA to show their annoyance:
My phone camera would surely do better than this
Shame shame shame #ShameOnNTA
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Thank God for Dstv oh, watching the super eagles game now on NTA doesn't make me feel like this is 2019, it's looking like some 1999 shii #NGABEN #ShameOnNTA
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NTA has killed me. The man is so pained #ShameOnNTA
Get someone to translate the Yoruba
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According to the commentator Iwobi is still an Arsenal player. I'm done with NTA. #ShameOnNTA
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Imagine listening to @NTANewsNow
commentary of the #NGABEN match and hearing @alexiwobi
is still an @Arsenal player. And this commentator will collect his salary at the end of the month? #ShameOnNTA
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Refree blew the whistle..... Nigerias commentator did not hear he just saw movements .....so he said im believing thats the end of the match #NGABEN #ShameOnNTA
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This commentator really said Super eagles 2 - Nigeria 1 #ShameOnNTA #NGABEN
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By now we for don dy see keyboard warriors analysis;
"Iwobi is too lazy",
"Rohr is another Valverde",
"Osimehn is the best thing after Nigeria jollof",
yen yen yen
Do you know why nobody is analyzing the Super Eagles match today?
----->NTA#ShameOnNTA
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I know NTA fucked up but the commentary by this guy really cracked me up#NGABEN #ShameOnNTA
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Someone said that nokia C2 would have a better graphical display #ShameOnNTA
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NTA for god's sake this is 2019 not 1969 #ShameOnNTA
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That camera man should be the target #ShameOnNTA
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Nigerians after watching Nta for 30 seconds: #ShameonNTA #NGABEN
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Me: what's the scoreline
Commentator : Eagles 2 Nigeria1
Me :#ShameOnNTA
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So during Nigeria match, the commentator said IWOBI is an arsenal player
He then said Super Eagles 2 Nigeria 1.. Baba is high on Ijebu weed#ShameOnNTA
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Goooal!!! No it's an offside call. Let's check it on VAR.
NTA's VAR #ShameOnNTA
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