Community Radio broadcasting is not an entirely new form of broadcasting, it is a form of broadcasting that is at the front burner of broadcasting development in the world today. It is an intergrated part of what Prof. Lai Oso former deputy rector of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic calls community media.

According to Prof. Lai Oso, community broadcasting is a unique form of broadcasting that is targeted at giving a voice to the voiceless section of the society, especially in the rural communities.

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The Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) recognizes campus broadcasting as a major form of broadcasting in Nigeria and it stipulates conditions for the insurance of campus broadcasting license to any higher institution of learning in the country.

This explains why we have the first campus radio, Unilag 103.1 Fm owned by the University of Lagos and other campus radio stations in Nigeria

Taking Unilag Fm as a case study, it was officially commissioned December 14 2004 by former vice president of Nigeria Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and headed by a co-ordinator according to their following rank, Head of news, Head of programms, producers and reporters. Unlilag fm is therefore the first campus radio station to go on air in 2004 in which there first audience are the students on campus and secondly citizens all over the country.

Based on Unilag Radio credible performance, a standard stage was set for other campuses to receive their licenses, in which as at the last count 27 higher institution in Nigeria have received their licenses so far.

In an exclusive interview with Tayo Takuro the Head of News Unilag Radio, he explained there organisation structure, response of advertisers, challenges community radios are facing, amongst others.

Taking a brief back to the history of unilag Fm, it took the institution over 20years to get the license and another 2 years to put equipment and other necessary things in place.

The law that establishes the station does not allow us to advertise thereby restricting us in some specific areas. The organisation is not a profit making organisation, it is meant to train the students, therefore our focus is not on advert but to train students, although we do a little advert but our focus is not to make money but to impact knowledge.

He further said that as a community radio Unilag fm has achieved it primary aim, being the first campus radio to be granted license by NBC in Nigeria and also with the good examples layed by the institution other higher institutions in Nigeria have also been granted license.

In his words he said “To confirm that the station has achieved its primary purpose we have students who have been trained and employed by other stations such as, Channels, Choice fm, etc. If they are not good, they wouldn’t have been employed by these stations”.

Speaking on the challenges facing community operations, he explained that they have a target audience thereby restricting them from so many areas and since it is not an organisation setup to make profit. Only national issues that affect the people of a state or a local government are allowed. Other areas such as politics or political advert are not allowed since it is more or less a place for training students.

For every community radio there is limited scope of operation because the NBC will tell you the kind of programmes and transmitter you must buy.

Every community radio has to be limited to a set of people, taking a look at a particular community radio he visited in Ghana he shared his experience with us. The radio station was set up within the village premises and deals with issues of the village and every thing that is going on in the community. The community runs the radio station, in which a box is place at the center of the village where every body drops money, letter or opinions on some of their programmes. The language the villagers speak is what they will use to broadcast at the radio station since it is a community radio and is meant for the communuity

The programmes aired on community radio are determine by the community itself. Unilag fm programmes are mostly educational or instructional programmes since it is an higher institution radio where by students learn on daily basis. Examples of programmes include:

• General interest programmes
• Educational programmes
• News and current affairs programmes
• Quiz programmes
• Health programmes
• Sport programmes
• Youth programmes
• Music programmes
• Religious programmes

All website must contain text, images, Audio and Video.

Taking TVC website as an example; this is a news website in which latest news and event are posted every day.

www.tvcontinental.tv

Home: This is where you find all the icons.

About: This is where you find the aim and objectives of the organization.

News: Here you find Politics, Business, World, fashion, Music, Movie and Comedy News.

Programme: This is where you can get the link to view various programmes such as On the street, Health Matters, Not the news, Boom box, E Splash, Labi Show, The Big Screen, Your View, Event Diary. Etc.

Live Streaming: This is where you can watch various live programs

Gallery: Here you can find various Pictures

Contact Us: Here you can contact the organization directly.

Slide Shows: Here you will see the slide show of various news pictures.

Tweets: This is where messages been posted by the channel on twitter appear.

Videos: This is where videos of different programme such as: Boom box, E Splash, Labi Show, The Big Screen, Your View, and Event Diary. Etc

Abiodun Ogunjobi, otherwise known as Godogodo, the dreaded one-eyed robbery czar who terrorized Lagos and other South-West states, killing no less than 50 policemen while raiding several banks, businesses and homes, for over 14 years has revealed that he almost quit robbery in 2011.

Godogodo made this disclosure during an interview with news men at the state Police Command headquarters, Ikeja, where he is currently being detained following his arrest by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, led by SP Abba Kyari, on August 1.

Godogodo added that he also travelled to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to buy clothes whose sales would keep him busy when he is not on his fish farm.

But his dreams got dashed when an operative of SARS, who had been on his trail for long, got an intelligence report on his location and traced him to his mansion.

It was  gathered that the operative met a member of one land-owning family, locally known as omo-onile in the area and made him take an oath not to reveal his mission to anyone. But the omo-onile informed Godogodo of the presence of a SARS operative in search of him and he quickly fled Ikorodu and relocated to Ibadan where he built two more mansions. According to a source, “one of our operatives tracking Godogodo received an intelligence report on his location in Ikorodu and stormed the area as an undercover operative. “He met a young man, an omo-onile, in Ikorodu who showed him Godogodo’s house but he was not in. Only his wife was around. “The operative paid the omo-onile to keep watch on Godogodo’s house and report to him whenever he sets his eye on him, but news got to him (Godogodo) that a police undercover operative was in town looking for him. He fled without packing his property.”  But Godogodo, speaking to News men said: “In 2008, after I finished building my house in Ikorodu and I setting up a good business for my wife, I went into fish farming. I built about 52 fish ponds and I was making good money from them.

“I usually sell each pond between N600,000 and N800,000 and it took me four months to grow fingerlings into a maturity for sale. The business was moving smoothly and I had over 15 people working for me at the pond.

“While the business was on, I was still going for robberies with members of my gang, but in 2011, I decided to quit. I gave all my rifles, they were nine in number, to my boy, Tosin, who resides at Ajah and I stopped going for robberies. “I only asked them to bring my share of any loot they made from robberies carried out with my rifles. But in June of that year, I travelled to Dubai, where I bought some clothes I intended to sell in Nigeria. When I returned, one omo-onile whom I had assisted in the past (in fact, I gave the guy N200,000 when his wife put to bed through a caesarean section) came to see me. I also gave him some of the clothes I brought from Dubai. He came to me and said a SARS operative had been in town, looking for me.

“The omo-onile explained that the operative dropped a live bullet into a cup of gin and made him swear an oath that he would not reveal his mission to anyone and he should also inform him upon my return.“The moment I heard this, I knew there was trouble and my cover had been compromised, because nobody knew where I lived, including my gang members. I quickly moved out of the house and I went to Ajah to relax before I contacted my wife and asked her to leave the house without picking anything. “We stayed in that hotel for quite some time and I was running out of cash because the guys running my fish ponds were no longer remitting money because they heard that the police were after me.

“At that point I was left with no option than to go back to my gang. After some few bank robberies in Osun and OndoStates, I made huge money which I used to buy the land at Ibadan before I started building on it. But after that,I became more vicious and I made sure that I took part in all major operations within the South-West.”

Meantime, It was gathered that the five AK-47 rifles and 40 fully-loaded magazines recovered from Godogodo, after his return from OgunState, were found in Ayobo area by the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island. The recovery has brought the total number of rifles recovered from the notorious bandit to 28. According to the source, three of the rifles were found in a Nissan Primera car parked in the premises of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji Adele. Sources disclosed to Vanguard that the vehicle was parked at the Federal Special Anti-Robber Squad, Adeniji Adele for over three years and was not properly searched after it was transferred from Ifo Police Station in Ogun State, when they ransacked one of Godogodo’s mansions in OgunState.

The two other AK-47 rifles and 15 loaded magazines were recovered from Ayobo area of Lagos where they were buried. However, the discovery of three AK-47 rifles which belonged to three police officers attached to Mopol 16 in Abekuta, Ogun State, who were killed by Godogodo and his gang members when they were ambushed, at the Federal Special Anti-Robber Squad, Adeniji Adele sent the unit into disarray.

The Holy Father again has shown his deep compassion and love for the sick at his weekly audience in St Peter’s Square. Showing no hesitance and displaying the living out of the Beatitudes that characterizes his Petrine ministry, Pope Francis embraced, kissed, and blessed a man with severe facial deformities. Pope Francis, while speaking with the man, gestured toward the sky in a private moment, in the midst of a crowded square. The name of the man and the cause of his disfigurement are unknown

The scene was reminiscent of another encounter the Holy Father had with a man disfigured by neurofibromatosis in St. Peter’s Square a few weeks ago that got international attention.

While it is certainly not a novel approach for the successors of St. Peter to care for and personally comfort the sick, disfigured, and poor, Pope Francis relationship with these people is sparking worldwide interest from both secular and religious media outlets in a way perhaps not seen before in the modern world.

Street trading is no longer new in countries like Nigeria, as school children and adult from the ages of 14 years and above hawk various items in traffic such as drinks water gala book vcd etc.
In an interview with some of the street traders they all blame the state government for not providing an affordable place for them to trade as the places provided are too expensive for them.
Okolie Juliet who hawk pawpaw in a garage said that she only pay 200 to the touts in the garage and they allow her to hawk from morning till evening, in which at the end of the day the least gain she realize will not be less than 1200 daily.
Biodun akinpelu who hawk water and drink in the traffic lamented that due to the fact that he could not get a job with his ond certificate he had no other choice than to hawk in the traffic as the money he realizes put food on his table and also cater for his two sisters.
Iyabo dada who is a single mother of 2 kids hawk food in Orile Agege area of Lagos state. She explained that it is not easy to carry food on her head and move from one location to the other, but she has no choice as she had to feed her two children whom their father left the house without returning and not knowing his whereabouts whether dead or alive. She further said that after the disappearance of her husband she has been the one to cater for herself and the children in which the house rent, school fees, feeding, clothing etc are all on her neck.
Speaking with Mrs. Ibironke akinpelu a shop owner at progress plaza Iju Agege, she said that street trading is dangerous as the lives of those hawking on the street are in danger.
She recall an incident that happen few months back at Lagos Abeokuta express way where by a young boy of about 12years old was hawking pure water, in process of the boy selling pure water to someone in an ongoing vehicle a car coming opposite side knock the boy down and died on spot. She further said that people should not take the country’s economy problem as an excuse to hawk on the roadside or send their children or ward to do so, as no one will want to lose his or her family member no matter the level of poverty.
She advised that people should always look for a place to sell no matter how small the place may be even if there take home does not meet their expectation, because when there is life there is hope

Education is an act by which society transmit its accumulated knowledge, mind, character, skills and values (personal and cultural) from one generation to another. In other words education is a basic human right and considered as a key tool for every national development.

Technical education is fundamentally basic and rudimentary to technology which in turn is the tool of development that gives an individual the skills to become a productive citizen in a global society.

Technical education has a major role to play by providing the much needed skilled man-power in various spheres of endeavor without which the engineers, scientists, inventors and so on will find it rather impossible to operate. It has to been an integral part of national development strategy in any societies because of its impact on productivity and economic development.

Inspite of its contribution, Nigeria as a nation has not given the attention it deserves. Nigeria educational institution has been on academic qualification rather than skill acquisition and problem solving activities. While there are thousands of secondary schools across the nation, the total number of science and technical colleges is far below 200.

The effort of our universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education has not produced the type and quality of skilled worker that can support our economy in the 21^st century.

There is a wide gap between theoretical curriculum taught in tertiary institution and the practical skill needed by employees of labour, therefore making the educational system and the world of work one of the major challenges Nigeria is facing today.

While technical education has continued to thrive in many societies, Nigeria has neglected this aspect of education in which the government technical colleges which are wide spread all over the federation have continued to perform below expectation in terms of the quality and quantity of trainings and trainee.

Poor funding, low quality of students and inadequately prepared teachers have continued to rubbish technical education by making it unattractive to the teeming youths. The problem in the education sector have become so serious that the UNESCO recently concluded that the aim of various government is to combat poverty through the establishment of different programmes aimed at job creation and poverty reduction has failed and will continue to fail if the youth lack the necessary practical skill.

Therefore the dynamic of global labour market have been tilting towards the replacement of physical labour  by knowledge and innovation skills, the undisputed facts remains that the knowledgeable and competitive skilled force are in desperate short supply in Nigeria today.

Similarly, technical education in Nigeria is fraught with problems, which hamper it ability to produce adequate number and the quality of skilled technical manpower required to lift our country from the unenviable state of technological irrelevance and economic depression.

The neglect of technical education is socially and economically injurious because it is robbing the nation of the contribution the graduates would make on national development. For that reason Nigeria today is wearing the toga of a poor state, because of the sorry state of the nation tertiary institution. Many of the graduates lack, “employability” skills, which could easily be acquired from technical colleges, therefore it is no longer news that the nations youths unemployment rates has been shooting up the sky.

The nations’ technical schools should be brought to international standard by imploring teachers with field experience in the subject areas, experienced and professional administrators to run technical institution as obtained in the developed nations. Technical graduates should be thoroughly certified before they can practice as technicians.

It is therefore viewed that national development must be a country’s development target. Technical education in national development is linked to human resources development in which it has significant impact on the economic growth as well as the development of individual and society.

Nations should begin now to take very seriously investment in technical education as no nation can compete effectively in the emerging global market with poorly educated and unskilled workers. The leading factors of production in the emerging global economy are said to be technology, knowledge, creativity and innovation. However the progress of any society lies in the productivity of its citizens. Higher productivity gives a nation advantage of economies of scale and lowers the cost of production as well as prices of goods and services.

Finally the nation’s (Nigeria) vision 20-20 and the seven point agenda will remain a paper tiger without technical education because “no nation can fight a war without an army”. Therefore a balanced skilled workforce plays a more holistic role in every national development.