Radio Station in Nigeria to Promote Godliness
March 19, 2009 – 4:19 pmNigerian banker Erastus Akingbola has launched a radio station that seeks to propagate morals, ethics, and godliness as the basic principles for nation-building in a country that forbids outright religious broadcasting.
Inspiration FM is the first Nigerian station to promote “godliness” as one of its objectives. Nigeria’s broadcasting code forbids the establishment of stations for outright religious broadcasting to the country’s 146 million people of whom about 50 percent are Muslims and 40 percent Christians. Christian and Islamic religious broadcasts are usually classified as commercial programs [but individual paid programs] can be broadcast on television and radio stations in the country.
Akingbola lamented what he called the debasement of the country’s moral, socio-economic, political, and even religious values. He said there is an urgent need to address the situation in Africa’s most populous nation, which despite its oil wealth, is beset by rampant corruption that holds back development.
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Editor’s note: Learn more about what Nigerians are doing in mission by visiting the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association.
