BOILING POINT: Another Radio Station, Roots 97.1 FM Joins Broadcast Network for New Year Edition Focusing on Africa's Future with Prof Falola
By: Olufemi Orunsola
As Nigeria braces up for the new year edition of popular monthly interview discourse on governance and nation building, Boiling Point Arena, OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News reports that the network of media houses broadcasting the programme has expanded with the addition of another Radio station to the league.
OTN News further reports that the national discourse programme billed to beam its searchlight beyond Nigeria, as it focuses on Navigating the future of Africa as a continent, drawing from the knowledge Bank of an erudite African professor of history, Prof Toyin Falola, is already attracting great interests from Nigerians at home and abroad as well as media groups across the globe.
OTN News reports that Roots 97.1 FM the latest addition to the list of radio and television stations collaborating to widen the audience reach of Boiling Point Arena via the terrestrial frequency across Nigeria and around the globe, is an Abeokuta-based wave making Radio station in Ogun State, Nigeria.
Owned by an accomplished broadcaster and media entrepreneur, Mr Kunle Onime, Roots FM is the first Nigerian Reggae radio station.
BOILING POINT ARENA which has paraded indepth news content on consistent monthly basis via Zoom now has about five media groups collaborating to broadcast the interview discourses.
Among these stations are Oodua 99.9FM, Abeokuta, Sweet 107.1FM, Abeokuta, WASH 94.9FM, Lagos, Eagle 7 Radio 103.7FM and the London-based Ben Television.
The current affairs programme with an incredibly large online followership, is the brainchild of a media professional and public relations strategist, Dr Ayo Arowojolu, who parades 34 years multi-varied work career spanning the media, banking and education sectors.
OTN News recalls that the edition of the programme in the outgone year 2024 was a significant peak of social relevance of the programme as it featured former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who spoke on his legacies in governance and made an incisive assessment of the current state of the country's affairs.
The forthcoming edition being the first edition in the new year 2025, which is the 27th episode, holds on Sunday January 12, 2025 from 8pm over a two-hour duration.
The programme anchor, Dr Ayo Arowojolu informed OTN News that eminent historian and an internationally rated academic, Prof. Toyin Falola is confirmed to be on the show this time around to dissect Africa's Future and point the way forward as to how Africa can truly emerge as a future economic and cultural superpower as he does justice to the topic of discourse : "The Socio-Economic and Political Survival of Mother Africa--The Delimma and Viable Options".
As typical of previous editions of the show, foremost Yoruba traditional ruler, the Olowu of Owu Kingdom, Oba Prof Saka Matemilola is expected to deliver a keynote address to herald the discourse.
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