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An account of the 1976 coup from Radio House angle
It was last Wednesday, 3 February, 2021, that I spent about an hour with Kadaria Ahmed. She’d phoned the previous day asking that I be a guest newsreader on her squeaky new station, Radio Now 95.3FM, Lagos, at 1.00pm. Despite the very short notice but largely on account of my deference to Femi Odugbemi who put her on to me, I dressed up, showed up and took the short news bulletin.
LCC Speaks on Bank Debts, Ownership and Fate of Over 500 Workers
The Lekki Concession Company (LCC) has again appealed for the understanding of aggrieved youths who are bent on preventing the Company from commencing the evaluation of the extent of the damage done to its assets on the night of Tuesday, October 20, 2020, citing the subsisting bank debts and the fate of its over 500 workers as compelling reasons the process ought to begin now.
LSACA conducts free HIV testing services
In a bid to encourage residents of Lagos State, especially the Adolescent and Young People (AYP) know their HIV status, the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) has conducted Free HIV Testing Services (HTS) at the Ozone Cinema, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos.
UK endorses more foreign direct investments into Lagos
. . . As Dep. High Commissioner, Top LASG Officials Tour Proposed Waste-To-Energy Facility
COVID-19: Nigeria records 520 new cases
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President Buhari condemns reported cases of ethnic violence in the country
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution.
Sanwo-Olu, another ‘Action Governor’ in Lagos – Fashola
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has described Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu as 'Action Governor' of Lagos.
COVID-19: Nigeria records 1,143 new cases, Lagos reports 319
On the 13th of February 2021, 1143 new confirmed cases and 13 deaths were recorded in Nigeria
Lagos Police arrest 76 at party for violating covid-19 protocols
LAGOS POLICE ARREST 76 at party for violating covid-19 protocols
Roseline Ogunro’s report, Radio Nigeria Announcer on Duty the day General Murtala Mohammed was killed
I was the early morning duty continuity announcer on Friday 13 February 1976, exactly 45 years ago. My shift commenced at 5:30 am and would have finished at 11:30 am. Things were going on smoothly until about 7:20 am when a rather scruffy man with red eyes as though under the influence of alcohol or other substances, in army uniform and armed with a gun, walked into the continuity studio with another army officer and one of my colleagues, a producer in the Hausa Service of Voice of Nigeria. The scruffy officer was later to announce that he was Dimka. He said as they came in, ‘any resistance from these people, shoot’. He then demanded to use my microphone. I got up and he took over my seat and my microphone. He then announced that there had been a coup and that the Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed had been killed. He proceeded to make the infamous ‘dawn to dusk curfew’. He read from a scrap of paper. After the announcement he asked if I had military (martial music) to which I said no. The colleague who accompanied the officers left immediately and returned quite quickly with a compilation of martial music records possibly from the music library. He seemed to have pre-compiled them. I was commanded to play them after Dimka’s announcement. I was not overly scared at this point. I thought to myself, ’just do as you are told’ especially as the man was armed with a gun.