Nigeria, July 1 -- The Digital Switchover (DSO) will fetch Nigeria $1.1 billion from the collection of TV licences and digital access fees, the information minister, Lai Mohammed, has said.

He said the spectrum that would be vacated once the analogue to digital migration has been completed "will fetch $1 billion on its own."

Mr Mohammed disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the 6th virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

"I have just presented the Ministerial Performance Report of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, covering the period August 2019 to June 2020, to the Federal Executive Co...