Digicast Magazine

28/03/2023

A BBC Wales documentary on the recently deceased Bugbemi Amatoritsewor aka AMAS

A documentary on my life and work in Wales. UK

02/10/2022

Burna Boy among beneficiaries of 2022 National Award. He's slated to receive Member of the Federal Republic MFR.

https://thenewsmatrics.com/buhari-to-confer-national-honours-on-abba-kyari-burna-boy-okonjo-iweala-others/

21/09/2022

https://www.facebook.com/100046685297998/posts/608630780703093/

Salihu Dembos appointed NTA Director-General.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Salihu Dembos the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Television Authority.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the announcement in Abuja today, said the appointment is for a tenure of three years in the first instance.

Mr. Dembos who was the Executive Director, Marketing, of the NTA,’’ has had a career spanning over 20 years, during which he served as General Manager of NTA Lokoja and Kano and as Zonal Director, NTA, Kaduna.

21/09/2022

A little memo to the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Pay-TV – By Okoh Aihe

"How often do we have to tell these lawmakers that the broadcast industry has been deregulated since August 24, 1992? Decree 38 of 1992, now an act of the National Assembly"

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=608484527384385&id=100046685297998

A little memo to the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Pay-TV - By Okoh Aihe - TheNewsGuru

07/09/2022

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=597241705175334&id=100046685297998

A government and a regulator in difficult placement - By Okoh Aihe - TheNewsGuru

19/08/2022

NBC revokes licenses of 50 broadcasters: Over N2.6 Billion outstanding in licenses fees.

https://thenewsmatrics.com/just-in-nbc-revokes-licenses-of-ait-silverbird-raypower-fm-others/

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked the broadcast licences of Silverbird TV, AIT, Raypower FM, and Rhythm FM amongst 47 others over failure to renew their broadcast licences.Director General Mallam Balarabe Shehu, who disclosed this on Friday, directed its state offices to liais

16/08/2022

16/08/2022

03/03/2022

Modele Sharafa Yusuff announces bid for Government House, Ogun State.
https://www.facebook.com/107804097504346/posts/480671810217571/

A former Special Adviser to the Ogun State Governor and a media icon in Nigeria, Modele Sharafa-Yussuf has declared her intention to contest for the Governor...

30/11/2021

Online radio creates a huge opportunity for media practitioners, from presenters to journalists to content creators.

19/11/2021

07/08/2021

We continue the serialisation of excerpts from BEN EGBUNA’s riveting memoir, ‘A Destiny Fulfilled’.

It is a study in the development of an individual and the institutions destiny took him through, filled with candid close-ups on leading names in the media and politics of his era and a lot of behind-the-scene happenings in high quarters in public service.’

*Trying Times, Chapter 14*

“The director general’s grouse was that the bulletin was silent on President Shagari’s speech to the Guild of Editors in Calabar but dwelt extensively on Mr. Bisi Onabanjo’s address.
Mr. Bako suspected that the bulletin was politically influenced. President Shagari was of the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) while Governor Onabanjo was of the opposition Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).
By Monday, the matter had assumed a more serious dimension with the presidential adviser on information, Mr. Olu Adebanjo, also showing official interest in the “non-use of the president’s address to the editors in Calabar” in that Friday evening bulletin.
To cover his incompetence and save his job, Mr. Obazele launched a desperate plan to find scapegoats.
He told Mr. Adebanjo that the situation was caused by saboteurs who were also “UPN agents” in the Radio Nigeria newsroom.
He named four persons – Mr. Atilade Atoyebi, Miss Remi Oke, Mr. Ben Egbuna and Mr. Francis Emelifeonwu - as the saboteurs and opposition party agents.”—

There’s a lot more to read in A Destiny Fulfilled…..

N8, 000 Hardback, N5, 000 Paperback.
Orders: WhatsApp 0802-350-8533. SMS 0803-360-2887.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]

03/08/2021

We continue the serialisation of excerpts from BEN EGBUNA’s riveting memoir, ‘A Destiny Fulfilled’ the public presentation of which is slated for August 12.
It is a study in the development of an individual and the institutions destiny took him through, filled with candid close-ups on leading names in the media and politics of his era and a lot of behind-the-scene happenings in high quarters in public service.’

*Daylight Coup d’état, Chapter 11*

“On 13th February 1976, I witnessed something in peacetime Lagos that was akin to my civil war experience. I had left my residence at 33, Okesuna Street on Lagos Island, a one-room apartment into which I moved in 1975 from Pedro to escape the nightmare of the Ikorodu Road traffic, for Broadcasting House at 7.15 a.m. Realising it was a Friday, I decided to go first to the corporation’s Central Stores at Alagbon Close to collect the items my unit had requisitioned for official use - batteries for tape recorders, cassette tapes, reporters’ notebooks and typing papers. The NBC Central Stores was located behind the Federal Secretariat, Ikoyi, and was accessed through Alagbon Close from Ikoyi Road. Vehicular traffic into and out of Alagbon Close was always heavy, spilling onto Ikoyi Road. From experience, I knew I could beat the traffic chaos if I went to the Central Stores that early.

On my way back to Broadcasting House some minutes past 8 a.m. the traffic had begun to build up and was crawling. When I was about twenty metres to Ikoyi Road, I noticed that an army officer in uniform was standing at the inter-section of Ikoyi Road and Alagbon Close. He was trying to enforce some order in the traffic. He stopped the flow of vehicles from Ikoyi towards Obalende and gave access to vehicles on Alagbon Close heading into Ikoyi Road. That was a very big relief to me. But just as I turned right into Ikoyi Road, I heard gunshots behind me, engendering a pandemonium; people ran in every direction. I looked into my car’s rear-view mirror as I drove the three hundred metres or so to Broadcasting House but I saw nothing extraordinary. Nevertheless I could still hear sporadic gunshots even as I turned off Ikoyi Road into the short drive leading to Broadcasting House IN-gate. Surprisingly, the soldiers at the Broadcasting House gate seemed unconcerned; a nonchalant display that I considered unprofessional.”

There’s a lot more to read in A Destiny Fulfilled…..

N8, 000 Hardback, N5, 000 Paperback.
Orders: WhatsApp 0802-350-8533. SMS 0803-360-2887.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]