Joey Off-Air Podcast

Mummy Chikwado’s husband has been rushed to the hospital. Due to the poor health facility in the hospital, they suspect that he’s been infected with coronavirus, a situation that leaves her downcasted, until the great news.

Amos returns from the quarantine center and meets a different situation in Kugiya, he whom the community laugh at his joke is now avoided by people, including his wife as they are not convinced that he is free of the virus.

Mama Aboy will not observe any of the Covid-19 precautions, a decision which has become her huge challenge, friends withdraw from her, and Alhaji Yunisa will not help her now that she’s in dare need until she meets all his conditions.

Laitu and Mummy Chikwado report a businesswoman, Madam JUJU as called by the duo to Ngo Kaneng. According to them, madam juju uses diabolical powers to pull their customers to her; little do they know that the innocent woman discovers a natural means of attracting customers in the covid-19 pandemic era.

Upon the declaration of lockdown by the community head, the entire kugiya community is thrown into a state of pandemonium, youths take to the street in protest, according to the; the lockdown is a ploy by the village head and a Chinese company to install a 5G network in the community, which they believe is the cause of the novel coronavirus.

The only Language a government such as Nigeria understands is protests, and every legitimate Nigerian has the civil rights of expression and the right to protest. That's why I'm this episode, I sat with Kendrick Gozie Ekwuzor on the plans to ask our government how accountable they're on the 12th of August 2021 which happens to be the International Day of Youths. This protest indeed has attracted a...

Every 12th of August,  youths are celebrated globally. Initiated by LEAP Africa, Youth Day of Service (YDoS) is an annual week-long, pan-African youth-led social impact campaign that begins on August 12 every year which is also ‘International Youth Day. YDoS is designed to ignite the agency and creativity of young people across Africa towards sustainable development and promote a culture of c...

In accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act 2003 (https://nlipw.com/university-jos-act/), the Governing Council of the University of Jos shortlisted eighteen professors who applied for the position. Unfortunately, the Pro-Chancellor, Prince Tony Momoh died before the process could end. Following the alleged opposition by some member...

Some refer to him as the "Architect of Modern UniJos", every Jossite and a member or friend of the University will definitely have amazing stories to tell about the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, Professor Sebastian Maimako. The Professor of accounting and finance is the 8th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University has contributed immensely to the infrastructural gro...

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has directly affected the security and the economy of Nigeria in a dramatic way. Unemployment has been on the increase, this is a reflection of the fragility of the national infrastructure. In this episode, Prince Charles Dickson, Ph. D. of Tattaunawa Roundtable Initiative explored what should be the common ground of the fragile communities. Despite a recession...

The pandemic worsens the global economy, especially with the lockdown, even though some entrepreneurs used digital marketing to scale, most of them were unable due to the structure of their business. This affected food security and the rate of hunger increased. The World Bank projected that five million Nigerians would be pushed into poverty due to COVID 19. Amidst many challenges the came with th...

Masks are a key measure to suppress transmission and save lives. Masks should be used as part of a comprehensive ‘Do it all!’ approach including physical distancing, avoiding crowded, closed, and close-contact settings, good ventilation, cleaning hands, covering sneezes and coughs, and more. Depending on the type, masks can be used for either protection of healthy persons or to prevent onward tran...

On the 22nd of May 2021, Comfort Benjamin went missing in Jos North, Plateau state. The Police were involved in the case and the family members and friends took to social media to call for help in finding her since it was on her birthday and she was not back. Later on the evening of 23rd May 2021, the corpse of the 16 years old was found at Nasarawa Gwong in Jos North. According to the Police, she...

For growth in any community, quality education is very important at every stage of human beings' development. Unlike most sectors, edtech has been booming since the pandemic even though schools were closed down, edtech entrepreneurs like uLesson, Value Max were able to provide instructional materials via technology. In this episode, I sat with Eno Peters of Value Max to discuss how your technology...

In late 2019, the Coronavirus was isolated. According to Wikipedia, its genetic sequence was published on 11 January 2020, triggering an urgent international response to prepare for an outbreak and hasten the development of a preventive COVID-19 vaccine. Creating a vaccine in under 1 year is no small feat. While the coronavirus pandemic made a new normal of mask-wearing and physical distancing, it...

A lot of Nigerians still don't believe in the Covid-19 vaccination. This brings me to a quick question you Listening, have you been vaccinated?  Why haven't you been vaccinated yet? It's because of these concerns I had Gabriel I. Oke on this episode to have conversations around what we need to know about the vaccine and why we've not been receptive to the covid-19 vaccine.  Take a listen

Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine? I took mine today and I had a conversation with Rachael Rafan, the COVID-19 vaccination Focal person for Jos South, Plateau state. In this episode, Mrs. Rafan shared a scientific and factual perspective as regards the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

As Plateau State gets Vaccinated, how are you reacting to this? In this Episode of #CovidCast with Matthew Tegha we talked about how the citizens of Plateau State are getting ready as Plateau State Government has to lead us by example by getting the first Jab. Cc: @SFCGNigeria

In commemoration of this year's International Day for Wildlife themed “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet”, the spotlight is on the central role of forests, forest species, and ecosystems services in sustaining the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people globally, and particularly of indigenous and local communities with historic ties to forested and forest-adjacent areas....

Coronavirus happens to be the first pandemic in the digital media era. Digital media has enabled us to easily share and access information about COVID-19. The danger of this efficiency is that digital media provides an opportunity for anybody to become a publisher, in this case, even those with inaccurate information have a platform to share their perspectives. The Pandemic has been worsened by th...

No doubt that information (authentic or fake) shapes perception. Since the world experienced the first pandemic in the social media era, different kinds of information have been flooding the internet space, just like this podcast; some are accurate others are not.  Misinformation is as dangerous as the pandemic, in this episode, Dr Meshak explored the relationship between media consumption, m...

Nigerian officials say the country is ready to receive its first COVID-19 vaccine doses by the end of January. The government wants to vaccinate 40% of the country's population by the end of this year. But experts say the cost and storage of the vaccine poses a challenge. Even though reports have stated that President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would be the first recipients...

UNTOLD is a poetic embodiment of a traumatic and unbelievably true life experience of a child growing up with a drunkard father; a fate shared with Billions of Children across the Globe that are victims of Child trafficking, physical, emotional, sexual violence, underage labor, and many more; from seemingly gloom and doom situation it peaks with clear and loud echoes of hope and assurance of victo...

People who have been infected with Covid-19 have an 83% less chance of being infected again, according to a study of health care workers in the United Kingdom. Prior to when I tested positive for COVID-19, I was always careful with ensuring I adhere to all guidelines, all of a sudden I lost my sense of taste and smell. In this radio interview at the #OfficeOfTheCitizen, I shared my survivor story....

In this episode, I had a chit chat with famous Osama Apkunonu , 1 of Africa, Edo born, Jos based, Naija hustler! Take a listen to why he refused to leave for Lagos for a greener pasture and how he did it differently for the past 2 decades! He revealed plans to settle and how the Jos Industry will be better  His biggest event is coming up soon on January 17th, 2021 with the biggest comedians c...