In an interview for The Channel, the magazine of the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB), the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria talks about the station’s expansion plans. Abubakar Jijiwa tells the AIB that “we are planning three new languages, Chinese and either Hindi or Urdu, and Portuguese as we want to reach out to Lusophone Africa. The Chinese are already doing very well in their Hausa service of China Radio International. Hausa probably has the capacity for 100m listeners, and that’s why others are targeting in the Hausa language. We are currently looking at the funding for Mandarin - our signal gets into China very well and we get a lot of letters from English listeners in China.”
(Source: The Channel)
on Aug 13th, 2008 at 17:45
Great to hear about plans for VoN’s proposed new language services. But I’m still waiting for their German broadcast. As a reminder here’s what Media Network reported on 2 Nov 2001:
By the end of the year, the station [Voice of Nigeria] plans to launch a German service, as well as broadcasts in two other Nigerian languages: Igbo and Yoruba.
I understand that Igbo and Yoruba were introduced since then but no German yet.