Yemi Farounbi Poetry Festival is a poetry festival organised by the Poetry Enclave (POEN), Ibadan in honour of the legacies built by the broadcast management guru, Amb. (Dr.) Yemi Farounbi. The Yemi Farounbi Poetry Festival (YEMFAFEST) 2022 held at Alliance Francaise, Iyaganku, Ibadan was a unique event which attracted distinguished personalities in the country such…
Signals of revolutions in our indigenous music industry are glaring enough, and these signals are of great interest to observers who forsee turn-around and upsets. Let’s talk about the sleepy city of Ibadan which is gradually waking up to a bubbling environment. For many years from the 60s, Ibadan was actually the seat of Arts…
Two stories were linked to Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture in the last few weeks. The first one raises a lot of hope for the Arts and Culture Industry as the Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, reportedly promised that Nigeria will partner with the Art of Living Foundation to host the World Culture Festival 2022….
Going by the fact that Nigeria must survive as a democratic nation, the Broadcast Industry needs a breath of survival as it struggles to operate. The major stakeholder of the industry, Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), raised this alarm this weekend in a speech by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Yemisi Bamgbose. According to the organisation,…
Some months back, when young Prophet G.F Adetuberu calmly announced to members of his ministry his intentions to establish The Vine Television, reactions were actually high but many hardly saw his move beyond the ordinary. Many reactions narrowed the move to the fact that it was probably time for the Ministry to have its own…
Nigeria’s broadcast world is not likely to accept Prof. Wole Soyinka as a historical ‘burden’. The industry has never celebrated him to offload this ‘burden’ as a matter of professional recognition. Not that the broadcast world does not celebrate him, but only few practitioners of the industry are aware of his pioneering effort towards the…
To some people, this might be described as a peep into the unknown. To many however it is a journey through an identifiable terrain. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step, unlike the broadcasting journey that could begin with a bi-labial or a labiodental consonant sound. The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission NBC, on…
If the world allowed the ‘Ebiras’, a community in Kogi State, Nigeria, Tom Adaba belonged to them. “We are very proud and appreciate God that the ‘Ebira Community Worldwide’ produced the impeccable and responsible family of Adai Tom Adaba… A kind hearted family capable of impacting true love, unity, peace and prosperity upon the world”,…
FIFA World Cup is an international football competition which is contested by senior men’s national teams of the members of the Federation International Football Association (FIFA). FIFA had its first tournament in 1930 and since then, the championship has been awarded to hold in different countries every four years except in 1942 and 1946 due…
There is likely to be no relationship between the two ‘Balarabes’; Late Balarabe Musa and Balarabe Ilelah, the newly appointed Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission. Although Balarabe Musa was widely known as a socialist, and Balarabe Ilelah also practised as a journalist in the Soviet Union, Musa came from Kaduna while Ilelah is…
