Ladan Salihu |
The FRCN
in December won four of the five awards at the recently concluded Nigeria Media
Merit Award, for the first time in history.
Of these
categories, the federal government owned radio station won the Radio of the Year,
a feat which came as a pleasant surprise to staff of the station and Nigerians
at large. One of the criteria for the award was based on the stations dynamic
coverage of the 2 015 elections. Other categories won by the station include,
Best Presenter, Best Producer and Best Reporter of the year.
Paparazzi
was at the station to feel the pulse of staff especially as the Director
General who helped the station achieve all these honours was relieved of his
post about two weeks ago.
A
journalist at the station, volunteered to take our reporter round the Abuja
premises to verify the legacies of the erstwhile DG, who we were told was happy
to bow out telling staff that he had attained the peak of his journalism career
having been DG of such a big parastatal and leaving on a high note.
What
Paparazzi found on ground at the FRCN was an amazing transformation of a radio
station which had been abandoned by previous heads of the organisation. Salihu
had transformed the radio station beyond belief both infrastructurally and
technically.
He had
built more studios, with state of the art equipment, trained staff to man these
studios, and given the old and hitherto archaic FRCN a complete facelift such
that the station can now compete with any other station in the world.
Paparazzi
noted that while other DGS of parastals complained of harassment, while some
were roundly hated and criticised by their staff, the staff of the FRCN were
full of praise for their ex-DG.
An elated
staff of the News Department told Paprazzi that the awards are indeed a
manifestation of the DG's exemplary managerial style. He emphasised training,
staff motivation and insisted on professional excellence being a professional
himself.
However
one staff wondered why the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed did not
grant the ex-DG the honour of presenting the awards to him personally and why
celebrate awards that were won on the 22nd of December 2015 now.
Many of
the staff we spoke with however vowed to work with whoever becomes the new DG
with the hope that he will carry on with Salihu's good works and what one of
them terms "impeccable managerial skill".
Source:Paparazzi
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