Episodes
Community leader wants an end to daily raid by customs, says sporadic shooting sends people into panic. Accuses customs of violating privacy rights. Abir el Ghonemy ends Ramadan talk series
Published 05/24/20
Professor of Immunology turn Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State in Nigeria has abolished taxes for farmers, traders, micro businesses and local food bars, saying government did not impact on their lives. Governor Ayade launched an anti tax agency and charged them to ensure the poor wasn't harassed for tax. A 32 year old first class graduate in physics has invented a sanitising chamber that uses electricity and solar. Rwanda launches covid 19 robotester capable of screening between 50...
Published 05/23/20
Abir el Ghonemy concludes the Ramadan talk series on worship in islam while a survivor of the 1918 flu recounts. A professor of physics reels out stories on robotics the robodoc, robolawyer and more.
Published 05/22/20
Abir el Ghonemy talks about brotherhood in Islam in her daily Ramadan talk series. The United Kingdom training dogs to sniff out Covid 19 positives upon arrival at airports. UK broadcast regulator sanctions television network of Nigerian pastor Chris Oyakhilome for broadcasting statements that are not duly verifiable.
Published 05/20/20
Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina slams World Health Organisation, says WHO is not accepting COVID ORGANICS because its origin is African and not from the west. Abir el Ghonemy speaks on Islam and labour.
Published 05/19/20
Rauf Abiodun Secretary of Alajapas foodstuff traders coalition says extension of lockdown in Ogun state amounts to hoodwinking. Abiodun says factories and industries in Ota, the industrial capital of the Southwest Nigerian state of Ogun are working. Abiodun also dismissed 50 billion naira set aside for MSEs as a story playing sweet only on television and newspaper. Susan Lawani, the Benue supposed Covid 19 index case is heading for the court, issues 7-day ultimatum. Abir el Ghonemy talks...
Published 05/17/20
Consultant Physician and Neurologist Dr Olusola Talabi says federating units in Nigeria are not compatible. Calls for regional autonomy in the wake of COVID 19. Dr Talabi condemned the breach of the nation-wide interstate border closure and warns that the influx of youths and almajiris from the north at a period when COVID 19 is prevalent in the north could spell disaster for Ogun state and the entire south of the country. UN security agency warns that terrorist are planning to strike at high...
Published 05/16/20
Dangote truck heading south east caught at border. Interstate border closure ineffective. Abir el Ghonemy talks about intention in todays ramadan talk.
Published 05/15/20
Conservcongo and the Congolese agency for Conservation and nature protection agree to work together to end poaching and trafficking of wildlife.
Published 05/15/20
Conservcongo has handed over wildlife including pangolin scales seized in a string of sting operations across the DRC to the country's environmental and nature protection agency UCCN. Conservcongo also signed a landmark MOU with UCCN to forge a private-public collaboration against wildlife poaching and trafficking. Adams conservcongo arrowhead told cowrieradio he was upbeat about the partnership, saying both sides needed each other to win the war against Wildlife poachers and traffickers. A...
Published 05/14/20
Millions of street children Almajiris roaming streets of Northern Nigerian cities are a recipe for disaster in the region says broadcast media chief executive Zubair Idris. Idris calls on States in the north of the country to launch a fund to address the challenges. The media chief says northern rulers are corrupt and this has led to systemic corruption in the region. China faces multiple legal action from victims of COVID 19 across the world Pangolin with Nigeria in the forefront of what...
Published 05/12/20
Conservcongo arrow head Adams Cassinga continues his conservation with Cowrieradio says special wildlife courts will speed up trial and prosecution of traffickers. Lake Victoria is full and President Yoweri Museveni warns encroachers to leave the banks and shore areas of the lake or they will be swallowed. Abir el Ghonemy says a little prayer in today's Ramadan talk.
Published 05/10/20
A conservation group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Conservcongo has intensified the campaign against poaching and trafficking. Conservcongo has carried out successful sting operations in the country resulting in arrests and rescue of endangered animals. Adams Cassinga leads the operations and speaks to Cowrie Radio's Reset Button. Abir El Ghonemy focuses on procastination as subject of the day's Ramadan talk. Bolawola Makinde wraps us global events.
Published 05/09/20
Farmers in an area in Oshun, southwest Nigeria have challenged Chinese investors who brought in excavator to pull down their cocoa and banana trees, saying the king gave them rights over the land . Ada Magaji of Pan Africa Network for development faults the Chinese claim, says it is wrong. Taiwan is a better friend and Africa should learn from her. China crackdown on dissent. Abir el Ghonemy on Ramadan talk plus world news review with Bola Makinde
Published 05/08/20
Sorry state of health facilities expose states of Northern Nigeria and latest victims are Covid 19 patients in isolation centre in Gombe. Protesters took to streets demanding better care and facilities. UK medic recommends vitamin d supplements to fight COVID disease and Indian doctor invokes religious injunctions on plagues. Abir el Ghonemy concludes three-part serial on power and process of personal transformation.
Published 05/07/20
Reports from across the country say mindless extortion by police and army officials manning check points is undermining COVID 19 containment and inter state border closure is a failure. Report by online news despatch stated clearly explains where new viruses come from. Abir el Ghonemy continues her daily ramadan series while Bola Makinde wraps up global events. Forty years since apala music icon Ayinla Omowura was murdered by his band manager.
Published 05/07/20
Uganda government reads riot act to encroachers on Lake Victoria. Get out now. Lake bursting the banks, tourism businesses going under water. Nature reclaiming its space across the world as COVID 19 forces human beings to stay behind cages.
Published 05/05/20
Adams Cassinga of Conservcongo speaks on 8-month long sting operation that led to the arrest near Congo DRC capital Kinshasa of 5 pangolin traffickers with half tonne of scales seized plus Chair of Save Pangolins and Pangolin Crisis fund expressing hope that COVID 19 may deter wildlife consumption. Abir El Ghonemy Ramadan talk is on Becoming.
Published 05/05/20
Environment journalist Nathan Nwakamma answers questions on croaker fish washed ashore Nigeria's Niger Delta Coastline as residents defy government warning fish not safe for human consumption forcing traditional rulers to invoke sanctions. Abir El Ghonemy talks about the four hormones that trigger happiness in humans plus contributions from New York ICU doctor Dave Price on what COVID 19 frontliners must do to be safe.
Published 05/03/20
Focus on Northern Nigeria's street Children Almajaris and the ECONOMIST says COVID 19 may be good news for PANGOLINS plus Ramadan talk with Abir Ghonemy and world news wrap up by Bolawola Makinde.
Published 05/02/20
India expected at least 90 per cent accuracy from Chinese COVID 19 test kits but got 94 per cent inaccuracy reports World Is One News and Nigerian social critic Ada Magaji leads campaign to reset the Africa China button Abir El Ghonemy on Ramadan talk and terrorist bombing of army check point plus Bola Makinde news wrapup
Published 05/01/20
Consultant Physician and Neurologist warns that influx of people from the north especially Kano axis which is epicenter of Covid 19 is timebomb says Nigeria waited too long in closing airspace and shutting borders. Abir El Ghonemy Ramadan talk focuses on the art of active listening while Bola Makinde wraps up global news.
Published 04/30/20
Published 04/30/20
President Donald Trump sends 200 ventilators to Nigeria and Nigerian social critic Ara Magaji says Chinese buying up African land to feed people back home. Abir El Ghonemy says don't judge a book by its cover. Bolawola Makinde wrap up of global events.
Published 04/29/20
Abir El Ghonemy goes prayerful tells each to be self and not someone else. Egypt relaxes quarantine and Senegal producing 4 million $1 COVID 19 test kits. Bola Makinde reviews events around the world.
Published 04/28/20