Bbc Hausa Comes To Marhaba Fm In Accra

26.01.2012 LISTEN

26 January 2012. BBC Hausa information and modern-day-affairs programming is now available for listening on Marhaba 99.3 bbc hausa news arsenal FM in Accra thanks to a brand new partnership agreement among BBC World Service and Marhaba FM.

In addition to every day BBC Hausa programmes which includes the morning display, BBC Shirin Safe, and the evening information programme, BBC Shirin Yamma, Hausa-talking audiences in Accra can also track into the BBC Hausa sports activities announcements broadcast Monday to Friday. Marhaba 99.three FM will even rebroadcast BBC Hausa weekly programmes together with the English Premier League statement, Amshoshin Takardun Ku (Listners' Letters) and girls's magazine focusing on motherhood and childcare, Haifi Ki Yaye Da BBC Hausa.

BBC World Service Business Development Manager, West and Southern Africa, Steve Martin, comments: “Listeners have been asking us to make BBC Hausa to be had on FM in Accra for years. Now, thanks to this new partnership with Marhaba ninety nine.three FM, listeners can pay attention the BBC programmes they want on the FM band they choose. We're extremely joyful to be extending our service on this way, in particular at a time when Hausa-speakers inform us they're eager for independent, impartial reporting arsenal of the present day information from Nigeria.”

Managing Director, Marhaba FM, Baba Sheriff Abdulahi, adds: “We are very proud and happy with this partnership as Hausa-talking listeners in Accra can now pay attention BBC in clear and nice sound on Marhaba FM.”

To mark the release of BBC Hausa on FM in Accra, BBC Hausa is staging a debate in Accra, asking if a “sub-Saharan African Spring” might be beneficial or important. BBC Hausa Editor, Mansur Liman, says: “We are pleased to be protecting this debate in Accra in the know-how that Hausa-talking audiences here can now concentrate to us in FM exceptional.”

The BBC Hausa debate will be recorded on Friday 27 January and broadcast on the equal day at 19.30 GMT.

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