Inspiration FM is something of an oddity in Nigeria. The radio station seeks to propagate morals, ethics and godliness as the basic principles for nation building in a country that has strictures on religious broadcasting.
Two-way radio to give disaster warning along 480 km Orissa coast ABOUT 300,000 fishermen living along the coast in Orissa will benefit from very high frequency (vhf) wireless radio sets to be set up in their villages starting April. These devices will keep them updated on cyclone warnings issued by the Indian Meteorological Department. The reasons for providing people with such sets
The people of Mugogo, a village situated some 2,000 km from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, will long remember January 4, 2008. On that day they heard their common wake-up call, babusa, from a radio station. Radio Babusa had hit the air. An initiative of the women
Farm Radio International recently held a script-writing competition on the topic of adapting to climate change. Working together with different partners, the fifteen winners
On October 2, the social networking site Bebo teamed up with an expert in radio communication, Alexander Zaitsev, to beam 500 messages from users into space. Zaitsev used a Ukrainian radio telescope, normally used to identify and track asteroids
marine sciences Rare corals aplenty According to researchers from James Cook University rare coral species might not be at high risks of extinction due to small population sizes.Their tendency to hybridize saves them. The previous prediction was that small population sizes led to decreased genetic diversity, which in turn decreased their adaptive capability. However, some
>> The Bihar government will set up a community radio station, the first for farmers in the state. Decks have been cleared for setting up the community radio station following clearance by the central government and approval of funding for it. Bihar
Radio and television announcements advised patients with surgical problems in the rural areas of Osun State, Nigeria, to report at any of the nine zonal headquarters of the state which were closest to their homes in order to receive free treatment. Over 1000 patients reported and 801 received operations on a rotational basis within nine weeks.
