Nigeria’s humor merchant Okey Bakassi, is now under the pay role of respected new channel in Nigeria-Channel TV as a news caster, yes a news caster.
What will Okey Bakassi be doing as a news caster? Okey, presents news with elements of humor every Thursday at 7:30pm on Channels Television to allow Nigerians see the softer part of happenings around the world.
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The comedian who has churned out remarkable performances in pictures Nollywood movies explained his involvement with the respected news channels
“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.
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“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.”
