The Voice of Nigeria, Nigerian state radio’s international broadcast network, has been forced off the air by a power cut, workers in the organisation said on Friday.
Voice of Nigeria, which broadcasts to audiences in Africa and Europe in English, French, Swahili, Hausa and Yoruba, went silent on Tuesday after an electrical transformer outside its Lagos headquarters exploded, they said.
”We do not know when power will be restored. The situation is worsened by the fact that our generator is also not working,” said a senior journalist.
The radio is making efforts to provide a skeleton service by moving its outside broadcast van to Ikorodu town, on the eastern outskirts of the city, where its transmitters are located, another worker said.
Poor funding is one of the major problems of the Voice of Nigeria, which was established more than 40 years ago. Workers allege that they are owed about three million naira ($23 000) in unpaid allowances. — Sapa-AFP