Establish Short-Wave Radio transmitting Station to counter wrong messages from foreign media in insurgent-affected States – NCI Delegate.

A delegate at the extraordinary National Council on Information meeting representing Radio, Television, Theatre  Workers Union (RATTAWU) has suggested the urgent establishment of Short Wave Radio Station staffed with people who can speak local languages of the insurgent-affected States of the North to combat spate of insurgents there.  He disclosed that RATTAWU did a research which revealed that the peoples of the North-East especially where insurgency is rife, listen more to foreign radio stations like BBC, VOA Hausa Services than they ever do to local FRCN or State-Government run radio stations.

The delegate, Dr. Yemisi Bamgbose held delegates spell bound with his intervention when he revealed that the content of the messages through the mentioned foreign stations do not mean well for the Governments of Nigeria and the nation itself.

He said, it is as if the foreign stations were operating as if they want to reveal what they probably see the Nigerian media and the Governments in Nigeria want to cover.  He revealed that the only Short-Wave Radio Station of Nigeria is licensed to Radio Nigeria Kaduna which he said is “dead and buried, years ago!”

However, the Director-General, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) who intervened after Dr. Bamgbose’s submission debunked the submission that FRCN Kaduna’s Short-Wave station is off-air.  He said, FRCN Kaduna’s Short-Wave and that of Yola are still transmitting and he said this is verifiable.