This is a personal witness account of a day in the life of the first television station in Africa, the Western Nigeria Television Station, (otherwise known as the WNTV), during its first 20 years of service. In October, Nigeria marks 60 years of the founding of the first television broadcasting station in Africa. The anniversary also marks 60 years since the Western Nigeria regional government of Chief Obafemi Awolowo incorporated the new television station with the earlier established radio station, the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service (WNBS), to become the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation. For two decades after this visionary enterprise, the WNBC would blaze an unparalleled trail in the annals of Nigeria broadcasting. Within weeks of my employment, I was involved in the drama of a broadcasting station being taken over by army rebels in a military coup d’état.

Source: Punch June 19, 2019 02:37 UTC