Rediscovering The Calendar: Calendars Take the Centre Stage of Discourse on "E YIRI E WO!" Media Show This Monday

By: Israel Adeleke 

As the new year 2026 unfolds, the focus on Nigeria's leading grassroots socio-surveillance campus multimedia show, "E YIRI E WO! shifts to the global phenomenon of framing time using the calendar.

A release made available to OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News by the host of the knowledge-based programme, a maverick Broadcaster and Development Communication expert, Ambassador Olufemi Orunsola has it that the first episode of the Monday morning programme in the new year is poised to explore new frontiers of knowledge and drive a rediscovery of sundry issues related to human existence on earth in relation to the measuring and framing of time.

Ambassador Orunsola wrote, "Join me on Monday, January 5, 2026 on MAPOLY RADIO 99.7 FM Ojere Abeokuta as we beam the searchlight on the phenomenon called Calendar."

The practical broadcast lecturer further hinted that among other things, "Answers Will Be Provided to Critical Learning Questions Such As: How Is the Calendar Related to Measuring Time in Relation to the Sun and the MoonOrigins of the Calendar, Types of Global Calendars, Jewish Calendar, Islamic Calendar, Chinese Calendar and the Yoruba Calendar."

In his typical pragmatic style of posing questions to elicit researched answers from audiences and participants, Orunsola challenges audiences of his grassroots show usually delivered in Yoruba language to suggest the right Yoruba word for "Calendar"

Other salient questions to be answered on the show this week's episode include:

*Did You Know That the Calendar Once Had Only Ten (10) Months? 

*Who Actually Changed the Global Calendar in Use Today to a 12-Month Calendar?

*Can You Identify the Yoruba Names of Each Month of the Year in the Yoruba Calendar?

Ambassador Orunsola further revealed tthatfree Gifts will be won on the new year edition of the "E YIRI E WO! Show as all lovers of knowledge are enjoined to join the converstion from 11 am on Monday.

Studio Line for the show remains 0705 365 2029.

The audience-commanding multimedia show, which airs every Monday between 11 am and 11.30 am on MAPOLY Radio 99.7 FM is also broadcast on OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA channels in video format on YouTube @opentv-naija, as well as his personal TikTok handle @Weird Lecturer as well as on OTN News @ www.opentvnaija.com

"E YIRI E WO!", is a grassroots programme initiated by Olufemi Orunsola to deepen the knowledge-base of Nigerians about life and every day things has previously beamed the searchlight on common objects and essential items such as the broom, mirror, combs, palm oil, eggs, turning stick(omorogun), the coconut, a farm tool called hoe, salt, rice, banana, chicken, and water among other things found in daily life experiences of people across the world.