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Jet crash: Air Force orders Hardwork OGD: Return PAGE 17 probe as agency pays! recovers seven –Newly Promoted Traffic Officer, of the PAGE 5 PAGE‘ 11Lion’ bodies Supol Bello Anifat Vol. 1 , No. 3 February 28, 2021 www.nigeriangateway.com N200 Farmers/herders: PAGE 3 How to end crisis Rochas Okorocha, Why Sanwo-Olu, Buhari’s team missed Ibadan parley aides arrested South-West, Northern Govs back ranching PAGE 13 Bandits strike again in Katsina Ogun gives palliatives, accommodation to victims To succeed, you have to be excellent PAGE 6 ---Bond FM GM MAPOLY honours Ifeoluwa for winning Presidential PAGE 18 President Muhammadu Buhari receiving Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun (right), when the governor presented NYSC Award a report on the recent farmers-herders clashes in the State...recently EBOLA: FG asks Nigerians to be vigilant PAGE 18 February 28, 2021 |6 February 28, 2021 |21 MediaWorld Life To succeed, you have to be ‘My encounter with a prostitute’ is guilty of moral depravity in this country. Me: No, you can't generalize in that way… She: (Cuts in) Sir, what it takes me to pull my excellent ---Bond FM GM clothes for a stranger is what it takes any government My first experience was or employer of labour to owe workers for several ethnic groups in the Starion. At certain months without salaries. Moral depravity has no occasions the staff not minding the ethnic traumatic. A few days gradation. Moral depravity is when our leaders oversee groups collaborate to put up programmes like “ the daily strangulation of the masses through economic after been transferred Bond FM 30th anniversary held in 2017. At hardship, watching our economy shrink, watching our the occasion, the three ethnic community were from Ibadan National people die like mosquitoes in the hands of terrorists well represented and performed to the delight Station of FRCN to Lagos and bandits with propaganda machinery to defend the of the people. So as a GM of such station it ugly trend. Moral depravity is a selective fight against behoves me to have a large heart to Operations of FRCN, I corruption when those who have despoiled this country accommodate all not minding who and where boarded a bus "one to stupor walk the streets as free men while petty from. thieves languish in jail. People prefer to air their products on Bond chance”. From Alapere, Me: Please, kindly answer my questions… FM because as they always say Bond FM is She: (Cuts in) Sir, it is the same moral depravities "Ile Ise alalubarilka" that is a blessed station Ketu, very early in the that will cause the deployment of soldiers to unleash that gives advertisers utmost value. Bond FM morning in 2003, I mayhem on innocent protesters and consign youths to is the toast of all. The most listened to station. their early graves. Moral depravity is the tacit support Independent presenters and advertisers wish to boarded the bus and it for herdsmen who are killing people all over the air their programmes and place adverts on our turned out to be “one country without a voice raised by the government, yet station. The challenge however is that time is these murderers are not terrorists. Moral depravity is not elastic and cannot be overstretched. We are chance”. The thieves when we take loans from China, abandon our refineries Particular about improving on our Star drained every body's but go to the Niger Republic to refine petroleum programmes, such as KOKO INU IWE products which are in turn imported back to us. IROYIN among others and enhancing other purse and pockets and Suddenly the landlocked Niger Republic has become existing programmes and lifting them into star an oil-producing country. It is more than moral programme level. dropped us off at Ifako depravity, it is a shame. Mr Lecturer, please research and asked us to squat till the relationship between Nigeria and Niger Republic. I am aware some politicians from Niger Republic came TAKE ON PHONE-IN PROGRAMMES they drove off. It was here to campaign for Mr Buhari during the last Definitely for me, most producers who rely on horrendous. election. There must be something about Mr Buhari phone- in are truly lazy. Mind the word “most and Nigeria Republic. Moral depravity is when a of them” and not all. Don't forget when we country finances terrorism by stage-managing a kidnap started in the early 90s, what we learnt and incident and paying the terrorists a whopping $4 imbibed was that as a broadcaster you must million. Sir, how come none of the schoolboys could By Promise Adiele pen down whatever you would say on air. This her and stopped. Three other ladies rushed to my car but speak simple English, not even the head boy? Moral means you would have the idea of your topic that bring up “morality”, “due process” and all depravity is when a president addresses the so-called n response to a notice inviting academic papers I already identified my prey. As if she knew I was and well researched. With that, you as the of that. Such announcements informed us about hooked on her, she stood aside and waited patiently for kidnapped schoolboys in Hausa instead of English, our presenter cannot be caught running out of what to do and how to do them and what not to for publication in a foreign journal with the title lingua franca. It is either because the president cannot “Vice or Virtue: Humanity and Professions”, I me to dismiss the others, then she slowly cat-walked to ideas. Don't also forget that the listeners do among other things. Vividly in my memory I my car. “Hi”, I blurted. “Good evening sir”, she replied, speak English or he knows the boys don't understand sometimes have more knowledge about now was the one that talked about dignity in submitted an abstract. Five weeks later, my abstract English. Moral depravity is when the university system was accepted with instructions to proceed with the her sonorous voice making an instant impression on me. certain topics than the presenters, and labour..." Ma tiju ise re, o baa sagbe, o ba a She: Where are we going to and what can you offer? is shut down for a whole year while government most of them are good listeners too. Therefore sakowe, bo je Onaja bo je oniworobo. Ise eni ni paper. As a scholar interested in the dialectic, I was officials have their children abroad in the best fascinated by the title of the notice due to the Me: Well, my mission is different. I want to have a you should not give them less than the best. ise eni" That is whatever legal job you found discussion with you for 30 minutes. I will pay you. universities. Moral depravity is…. Don't ever find yourself at a loss of idea or yourself in, do it with every sense of dignity. juxtaposition of the two words - Vice and Virtue. Me: Look, you must not…. The diametric but complementary alignment of the She: This is new. Are you a secret police agent? they use their question to sweep you off the These are my favourites on radio because of the Me: No, I am not. I am a lecturer, researching She: (Cuts in) Wait sir let me finish. You asked about chair and you are caught napping. It is so rhythm and the moral lessons that over forty two words bestirred my critical faculties. I decided moral depravity and I am explaining it to you. Moral to use Barnard Shaw's play “Mrs. Warren's prostitution. I want to hear from the horse's mouth, I have unfortunate that most presenters today just years still challenge me now. As at now I can a recorder. I will ask you some questions. depravity is when lawmakers earn colossal amounts of look out still recite them word for word. None of my Profession” as a template to interrogate the tensions money and are crippled by surplus while many people of vice and virtue as opposites inextricably She: I hope your recorder does not have a camera. for topics and put it on air for listeners to family members was in the media before me Me: No, it doesn't, you can examine it. wallow in deprivations and are devastated by need. contribute. They but in addition to my participation on intertwined with each other. For those who may not Me: Look…you see…are you sure… know, “Mrs. Warren's Profession” is a play that give listeners the job of running the Television at young age, I give credit to my Five minutes later, we found a table and two empty She: (Cuts in) You think because I stand on the road Princess Adenike Wuraola programme for them. My charge to presenters Dad who will not allow a weekend to pass recounts the story of Mrs. Kitty Warren, a one-time at night I don't know what is happening in this country? prostitute who, through the proceeds of her Her legs stood out chairs beside a posh hotel. Instantly, I set out to work. is to be up and doing and be on top of their without buying us all, his children, books for Me: What is your name? Don't forget I was once a journalist and I had a good rincess Adenike Wuraola Adegoke is a surpass the tempo. As the GM, I had to ask game, by reading wide so as to be well the week.