I waited a week to see if the spirit of crusading journalism for which I knew the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku will triumph over doubt, expecting that he would ask the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to reverse their suspension of the operations of WAZOBIA radio in Kano but nothing of that came from him.
The closure of the radio, was done on the heels of the controversy arising from the tragic killing of nine polio immunization workers in Kano city. The station was accused of airing a programme that is alleged to have incited unknown gunmen to go on the killing spree.
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