RFI signs to broadcast in Haoussa from Nigeria

[Richard Akindele]

Paris, France 09/07 - Radio France internationale (RFI) is expected to air new daily programmes in Haoussa as early as September from Lagos following a cooperation accord signed here between RFI and the "Voice of Nigeria" (VON).

The head RFI, Antoine Schwarz, and the managing director of the "Voice of Nigeria", Aboubakar Jijiwa, signed the agreement Thursday, according to an RFI statement published here.

RFI will use its various transmitters in Short Wave (SW) and in Frequency Modulation (FM) in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroon and Sudan to broadcast to some 100 million Africans.

The accord also provides for the joint development of the adaptation in Haoussa, and later on in other Nigerian languages, of a French teaching method, to be broadcast on the two stations.

The statement said the new Haoussaphone editorial staff will be set up in the offices of the Voice of Nigeria in Lagos, with a team of five trilingual journalist (Haoussa, French, English) and with two technicians supervised by a co-ordinator detached from the RFI editorial staff.

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