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By Celestine Okafor (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief)

Acting Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Professor Amstrong Aduku Idachaba, is presently on the public spot for wielding the big stick against broadcast stations which his Commission found to be on the wrong side of the NBC's regulatory code. Idachaba, a professor of Mass Communication, University teacher, a former Director of Monitoring and Broadcast Policy and Research in the Commission, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the NBC in February 2020. In this exclusive interview with the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspapers, CELESTINE OKAFOR, on Friday in his office at the Commission's Abuja headquarters, Professor Idachaba made interesting revelations about the NBC and the broadcasting operators in Nigeria. Excerpts:

By Bolanle Bolawole

The collective wisdom of the Yoruba race speaks to the fact that we should never speak tongue-in- cheek for the simple but unassailable fact that if we speak the harsh, bitter truth, we shall die; whether we are killed for speaking to truth or we die a natural death, we shall die. And if, for any reason or for fear of death we run from speaking the truth, we shall die all the same. Death is a necessary evil; a debt that each and everyone will pay, whether we like it or not.

By Femi Adesina

“Rather matter-of-factly, the President said his own generation was “on the last lap” and was exiting. It’s the youths that would take over the country, and the world.

By Eze Jude O.

When the polish prelate Karol Wortjila, emerged from the Conclave on Monday, October 16, 1978, as Pope John Paul II, not a few persons expressed morbid fear that the papacy under him may be a disaster judging from his background as a sufferer of the evil of Narcissism and the injustice of communism. He knew this. He perceived the apprehension among the people and opened his inaugural speech with the catch phrase: "Don't be afraid!"

By Anayo M. Nwosu

Mazi Kiwe left Nnewi in 1927 with his maternal uncle to Port Harcourt to learn carpentry.

He served his master for seven good years before he was "settled" or freed to start his own workshop.

By Eze Jude .O

The death of Chief Emeka Morocco Maduka on Thursday, 29th October 2020, was a tiding that will resonate beyond the course of a century. By his music, he evangelized more than some clergies in their pulpits, and influenced didactic thought-lines more than many lecturers in their professorial stools.

By Eze Jude . O

Since Benjin conference in 1995, the wave of feminism has known no boarders.

Women across the globe have taken their emancipation crusade to the north pole.

In its simplest definition, feminism means a social theory or political movement which argues that all legal, social, and religious (and if possible, biological) restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

By Eze Jude .O

"Modernized, the Easter message means that God recycles human garbage. He can turn prostitutes like Magdalene into disciples, broken reeds like Simon Peter into rocks, and political-minded Simon Zealots into martyrs for the faith. God is the God of the Second Chance.”

On May 29, 2018, President Buhari, in his democracy day speech promised Nigerians that he would sign the much demanded political office seekers' age criteria amendment bill tagged "Not too young to run act" into law. He graciously fulfill that promise at the council chambers of the state house three days after.

By Eze Jude. O

Dear Sir,

I am positive, you are at home with the time-tested advisory of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the US, that "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.

By Eze Jude .O

Since the return to democracy in 1999, Lagos billionaire political heavyweight, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has remained the most successful political Godfather in Nigeria. He meticulously schemed a perfect way of remaining relevant in the socio-political mesh of Nigeria's mega commercial city of Lagos.

By Chuka Nnabuife

Social Communication is a very dicey thing. It can finish a thriving society or revive a dying one in one swoop. The most worrisome factor is that any of this can happen without the key operator(s) in the communication foreseeing the outcome of their action(s) when they originated or escalated the message.