Following the need for comedians to create multiple channels for their craft, Nigerian comedian ,Okey Bakassi has unveiled an uncommon news programme called The Other News.
The comedian who also doubles as an actor explained on a recent radio show why the programme was created.
In his words:” Sometimes when you are tuned to news channels and listen to the news, it will appear as if all the problems of the country are about to descend on your shoulders. Before you know it, you will be having a headache just by listening to the news. So, we decided to make the business of telling the news softer, since there is always a softer side to everything.
“Underneath the open news that we read out lies humour. What we do is to mime it and bring it out to the audience so that they can also read between the lines. Our goal is basically to entertain, inform and enlighten Nigerians, as well as to inspire the youths to pay attention to the things happening around them.”