Nigeria: Addressing Radio Biafra's Divisive Commentaries

opinion

Last week, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) urged Nigerians to simply ignore Radio Biafra, a broadcast platform that has committed time, energy and resources to peddling resentful communication about Nigeria and its constituted authorities.

In two separate newspaper articles published in 2006 and 2009 in the New Sentinel and Sunday Trust, and credited to one of us, the manner of Boko Haram's total disregard for civil values was the point of discourse. The report in question warned that the government's disregard of the rebellious inclination of the group would amount to a calculated catastrophe to society. The authorities ignored this at society's general peril.

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