RFI Hausa expands programme

The RFI Hausa was launched in May 2007, and has rapidly gained over five million listeners a week in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroun, Ghana, Mali and Benin. The Hausa programming is adding an extra hour to broadcast three hours per day.  Among the new products is a bilingual radio drama series produced by RFI’s French […]

The RFI Hausa was launched in May 2007, and has rapidly gained over five million listeners a week in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroun, Ghana, Mali and Benin. The Hausa programming is adding an extra hour to broadcast three hours per day.  Among the new products is a bilingual radio drama series produced by RFI’s French language service and aimed at initiating Francophile listeners to the French language and culture.
On the occasion of the inauguration, Cecile Mégie, Exectuive Vice President of RFI, presented the Person of the Year Award to Solomon Dalung, an activist lawyer who campaigns for Islamic-Christian dialogue and was chosen by the listeners from among 20 world personalities compiled by RFI’s editorial team
“The Hausa Service is dynamiting its program line-up with the two-hour daily broadcast schedule being modified to increase proximity and interactivity with our listeners. The innovative programme line-up will include fresh magazines on the economy, new technologies as well as more of our great sport and culture programmes,” says Cecile Megie.
She said ten dedicated journalists and three local technicians as well as 15 Hausa correspondents in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Sudan and Mali have been recruited to drive the new programming content of the station.
Megie said the RFI Hausa’s editorial team is based in Lagos, Nigeria because Lagos remains the commercial nerve center of the nation’s economy and also benefits from the radio’s  network of worldwide correspondents and the expertise of its Paris-based journalists.
Julie Vandel a graduate of the Institute d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) of Bordeaux would serve as the Bureau Coordinator while Bashir Ibrahim would serve as Editor- In- Chief of the station.