Reading vs listening

The average northern Nigerian’s heavy reliance on radio as the main source of information was quite understandable when English literacy in that part of the country was miserably low. Yet, despite the huge progress achieved in this regard, reading habit among average northern Nigerians does not reflect the progress achieved.

The limited airtime allocated to radio and even television programs necessitates limiting the contents, which by implication leaves the audience in the dark as to the larger pictures, the broader contexts, the dynamics and the deeper analyses of issues usually found in newspapers, magazines, journals and books.