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By Celestine Okafor (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief)

Acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Professor Amstrong Aduku Idachaba, is presently on the public spot for wielding the big stick against broadcast stations which his Commission found to be on the wrong side of the NBC's regulatory code. Idachaba, a professor of Mass Communication, University teacher, a former Director of Monitoring and Broadcast Policy and Research in the Commission, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the NBC in February 2020. In this exclusive interview with the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspapers, CELESTINE OKAFOR, on Friday in his office at the Commission's Abuja headquarters, Professor Idachaba made interesting revelations about the NBC and the broadcasting operators in Nigeria. Excerpts:

 

By Bolanle Bolawole

The collective wisdom of the Yoruba race speaks to the fact that we should never speak tongue-in- cheek for the simple but unassailable fact that if we speak the harsh, bitter truth, we shall die; whether we are killed for speaking to truth or we die a natural death, we shall die. And if, for any reason or for fear of death we run from speaking the truth, we shall die all the same. Death is a necessary evil; a debt that each and everyone will pay, whether we like it or not.

 

By Eze Jude O.

When the polish prelate Karol Wortjila, emerged from the Conclave on Monday, October 16, 1978, as Pope John Paul II, not a few persons expressed morbid fear that the papacy under him may be a disaster judging from his background as a sufferer of the evil of Narcissism and the injustice of communism. He knew this. He perceived the apprehension among the people and opened his inaugural speech with the catch phrase: "Don't be afraid!"

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