Month: February 2024

  • The National Identity Scheme: The more you look the less you see – By Tony Ekata

    The National Identity Scheme: The more you look the less you see (First published December 30, 2020) The Nigerian government has extended the deadline for telecommunications companies to block SIM cards not integrated with national identification numbers (NINs) to 9 February 2021 at the latest. This is no breaking news. The extension was agreed on…

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  • The real tragedy of the Fourscore building collapse – By Tony Ekata

        “Buildings collapsing are a regular occurrence in Nigeria.” – eNCA   The above is the thrust of eNCA, South Africa’s foremost private television network’s coverage of the Fourscore building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria’s Johannesburg. It is no doubt a damning and rather hyperbolical synopsis of the tragic incident that changed the skyline of…

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  • Power of Radio to Inform and Educate Communities By Tony Ekata

      The full presentation by Tony Ekata on the ‘Power of Radio in Informing and Educating Communities: The African Perspective’ at the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development Web Summit hosted in Malaysia to mark World Radio Day 2024. Click here: FULL PRESENTATION BY TONY EKATA AT AIBD WORLD RADIO DAY WEB SUMMIT

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  • African governments urged to fund public broadcasters to sustain their relevance

    African governments have been urged to adequately fund public radio broadcasting stations to enable them to keep pace with emerging trends in the mass communication sector and remain relevant. Mr Tony Ekata, the Convener of the Broadcasters Global Forum, a virtual body of media professionals committed to promoting journalism standards across the world, made the…

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  • Who Will Wake Our Power-men From Their Slumber?

    They have amassed massive wealth from our commonwealth Leaving the common man with no food on his mat And no means for his health. With a pair of corrupt eyes They peer from within their tinted SUVs At fellows who not long ago were their peers Until a verdict from  a Supreme Cult of power…

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  • WHO NEEDS A PRESIDENT THAT CAN FIGHT CORRUPTION?

    Who Needs a President That Can Fight Corruption?

    WHO NEEDS A PRESIDENT THAT CAN FIGHT CORRUPTION? I don’t know whether we know how idiotic it sounds when people keep chorusing that Nigeria needs a president that can fight corruption. I do know, however, that people in saner climes would be laughing at us for seeking someone to teach us what we already know.…

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