FUTA RADIO 93.1 – Back On Air After 2 Years Of Shutting Down With A Test Run

There’s a Yoruba adage that implies the house of a king that got burnt, is an added beauty. That is the story of the radio station of the Federal University of Technology Akure. The campus radio station at the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), in Ondo State, FUTA Radio 93.1FM which was destroyed by a midnight fire in the year 2015. According to a SaharaReporters report that the fire started after an electrical power surge from the radio station’s studios. Reports had it that equipment worth millions of Naira was lost to the blaze which also damaged parts of the Registrar Office. In the early hours of Monday, 18th of September, 2017, the radio station which the university management had been working assiduously to re-launch, was test ran. The radio station which covers the university community and Akure environs broadcasted music’s of all kinds today. The student union president in person of comrade Olaseinde Adeyinka Williams (SirNewton) made this known to our correspondent via chat. In his own words; _” It was just test runned, FUTA Community should awaits the Futasu Press Release when it will starts fully and also the student’s Union has been pushing this to the management for a while”._ _”We also want to use this medium to thank the management For making it a reality and making the FUTA Radio back on.”_ The student of the university were gladden by this new development but the question on everyone’s lips remains, why did it take this long and when will it kick start broadcast.