Google honours Nigerian's lady of songs who used her fame to highlight social issues such as abuse of women and children. The guys @googleafrica never cease to impress. Today is Christy Essien Igbokwe's 58th posthumous birthday and she's been honoured with #GoogleDoodle. She gave us the evergreen classic, Omo mi seun rere tie adara o. May her soul continue to rest in peace.
Ali Baba, the veteran comedian has siad if the current exchange rate in the parallel market remains, and fuel is still being imported. The current approval of N30, 000 makes no difference to the masses. He said this while reacting to the increased in minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000, as avocated by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He said: "Market forces will swallow up the salary increase in 3-months. The quality of life has to be much better.The exchange rate has to drop to say N100 to $1 , and with fuel still being imported no chance of that happening". However, just to make himself happy he had to celebrate the increase. "Hey let's celebrate, minimum wage is now N30,000. Some Governors who were unable to pay N18,000 now pay N30,000. Oya let's dance jare", he wrote on his Instagram page.
Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Ishaq Modibbo-Kawu disclosed this on Tuesday in Port Harcourt at the opening of the 71st General Assembly of Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) Giving the breakdown, Modibbo-Kawu said that the president approved 147 new FM radio licences; 23 DTT Television licences , 3 new national radio network licences and 2 national television licences. He said the commission had also received presidential approval for 16 campus radio stations; 24 community broadcasters and 3 public organisations FM licences. The Director-General said the total of 213 licences were the single largest number of stations ever licensed at any point in Nigeria Broadcasting history. He reiterated the importance of BON as an umbrella body for all the broadcasting outfits in the country. From daily post.
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