Former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibajo, was the Guest Speaker at the Graduation Ceremony of Lead City University, Ibadan a few years ago. It was an excellent speech, as is usual of him. In that speech, he told two stories. The first has to do with an Assistant Lecturer in his Department when he was…
Solid FM Enugu is one of the numerous legacies of the Nigerian sage, Dora Akunyili. It is a radio station that was able to strike a great balance between Igbo and English content, between cultural and popular culture, between the religious and the secular, between youthful and elderly presenters. Solid FM is generally an FM…
Sometimes, there are things we want so badly that we don’t mind going the extra mile just to get them. There are places we so want to visit and we don’t mind whatever things we might forfeit to visit the place. If we are able to achieve this through any means, morally right or not,…
The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, has dismissed the petition by the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, that the 2023 presidential election was rigged in favour of President Bola Tinubu. The court, in its preliminary ruling that was delivered by Justice Abba Mohammed, held that Obi and the…
Reacting to the shutting down of operations of Africa Independent Television and Raypower FM in Port Harcourt the capital of Rivers State by the state government, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in a press release, released on Wednesday 6th September described the action regrettable, considering the impact of the broadcast media on the general development…
A delegation from TVC Communications led by its CEO, Andrew Hanlon, was on Tuesday, 5th September 2023, at the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) headquarters on a courtesy visit. The visit which was aimed at briefing the Director General and Management of the Commission on its journey so far, prospects and challenges. Mr. Andrew Hanlon described…
Very recently Innocent Ujah Idibia known by his stage name 2baba made known his intentions to leave secular music, expressing his desire to enter the sphere of religious ministry. He made this known in an Instagram post in which he demonstrated his vocal skills by leading a hymn during a Christmas Carol service in a church….
A Nigerian schoolchild, Oluwademilade Odumuboni, has won the global grand prize of the 2022/23 edition of the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. The 10-year-old boy, a pupil of Corona School, Gbagada Lagos, competed and won the coveted prize in the 2022/2023 edition after beating 782,852 other contestants from 90 countries. Master Odumuboni’s creativity, which was…
The leader of the coup , General Brice Oligui Nguema, that ousted Gabon President, Ali Bongo was sworn in as the interim on Monday (Sep 4) by the country’s constitutional court judges in a televised ceremony designed to solidify the junta’s grip on power, reported Reuters. This is coming after military officers led by Gabonese General Brice Oligui Nguema seized power of the…
The Rivers State Government has on Sunday, taken decisive action by shutting down the operations of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Both AIT and Raypower FM are part of DAAR Communications Plc, a media conglomerate based in Abuja. DAAR Communications was owned by the late media mogul…
