KWAM 1 @ 60: From the eyes of an Ibadan-born Fuji lover

Iwo ore mi/Talazo Disco/O dun lati jo oh/ (My dear friend /Talazo Disco/ is fun to dance/)

Wasiu Ayinde Marshall

No kid grew up in my part of Ibadan in the 80's and early 90's, without succumbing to the forceful influence of Fuji, that genre of music which dominated the streets and 'agbo-ile' of Agugu, Beere, Ayeye, Oje, Foko, Agbeni, Gege, Bode, Isale-Alfa, Popo Yemoja, Opopo Yeosa, Labo, Oranyan, Labiran, Yemetu, Ode-Aje, Orita-Aperin, Oremeji, Beyerunka, Atipe, Aremo, Oja'gbo, Oke-Are, Ayeye, Oke-Offa, and other parts of the so-called interior.
The limited media of mass communication notwithstanding - only NTA, BCOS, Radio Nigeria and Radio O.Y.O were available then - those streets bubbled with loud speakers of private sound studios (disk jockeys in their own right) who dished classical and contemporary musics, cutting across genres like Apala, Sakara, Juju, Waka, Fuji, Highlife etc., to the listening pleasure of residents and passersby.

COLLABORATION AGAINST CORRUPTION: EFCC Paid Courtesy Visit to Media Organizations in South East

As part of the EFCC’s renewed effort to take the anti-graft fight to the grassroots and in fulfillment of its preventive mandate as being championed by the acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, the Director, Public Affairs Department, Osita Nwajah, paid courtesy visit to some media organizations in the South East. 

The tour took him to NTA, Enugu; Dream FM Enugu; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Enugu network station and News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. 

At Dream FM, Nwajah was received by the station’s Managing Director and Head of Operation, Mr. Antonio Cruise and Nwosu Chidioze respectively; at FRCN, it was the zonal director, Ike Ken Okere, who expressed his delight in the visit, saying it was good in fostering institutional cooperation for the greater good of the country. 

Muslims in Nigeria begin Ramadan fast Saturday — NSCIA

Muslims in Nigeria will begin fasting Saturday, following the sighting of the Ramadan moon, head of the Moon sighting committee of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, [NSCIA], Prof. Sambo Wali Junaidu, announced early Saturday in Sokoto, according to the Nigerian Televison Authority NTA and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, monitored in Abuja.

The new announcement updates an earlier statement by the NSCIA, which had asked Nigerian Muslims to commence the Ramadan fast on Sunday, because, according to the Secretary-General of the body, Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Islamic studies, the moon had not been sighted.