{"id":191399,"date":"2025-02-14T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-more-than-half-of-kano-residents-rely-on-radio-for-information-study\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:46:41","slug":"nigeria-more-than-half-of-kano-residents-rely-on-radio-for-information-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-more-than-half-of-kano-residents-rely-on-radio-for-information-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: More Than Half of Kano Residents Rely On Radio for Information &#8211; Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The study found that online radio platforms are underutilised, partly due to weak signals in rural areas such as Jita Dutse in the Tudun Wada Local Government Area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>More than 51 per cent of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kanostate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kano<\/a><\/strong> residents rely on radio as their primary source of information, a study has revealed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Sahel Centre for Information, Media, and Development Research (SCIMDER) conducted the study. Isah Nasidi, the centre&#8217;s head and research team lead, said the study also examined media consumption trends in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140347.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study found that online radio platforms are underutilised, partly due to weak signals in rural areas such as Jita Dutse in the Tudun Wada Local Government Area. More than 51 per cent of Kano residents rely on radio as their primary source of information, a study has revealed. The Sahel Centre for Information, Media, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,422,694,257,4687,393,10612,18843,4288,254,6056],"class_list":["post-191399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-information","tag-kano","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-radio","tag-rely","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}