Sunday, July 29, 2007

A closer look at Voice of Nigeria




The Voice of Nigeria website is a bit of a rude awakening. The homepage is fairly typical, with news stories taking up the centre of the page and several links at the top. Unfortunately, most of these links are broken, leading either to blank pages or to browser error messages.

The News page shows several 5-15 word headlines, six feature stories (two of which are identical, and, on my browser, twenty “missing icon” messages. The About VON page gives a brief history of the station, their current operating mandate, and links (on the right) to On Air audio in eight languages. None of these appear to work. Perhaps they’re in the midst of an update, and forgot to mention it on the main page. Sigh…
(Source: ODXA-Listening In, Click!, Aug 07)

Voice of Nigeria is using the following English schedule on shortwave. All times UTC.
Programming targeted to Africa.

0900- 1630 9690
1630-2100 15120
2100-2300 7255
(Source: Gayle Van Horn, Freq Manager, Monitoring Times SW Guide)