Emdee Tiamiyu: Caution your anchors, Abike-Dabiri tells Arise TV CEO
The comment made on Emdee Tiamiyu’s interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation that ostensibly confirmed the ban on Nigerian students bringing their dependents to the United Kingdom has angered Abike Dabiri, the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, who has expressed her displeasure with the broadcasters and presenters of Arise Television.
On a morning broadcast, Ayo Mairo-Ese of Arise TV criticized President Major General Muhammad Buhari (retd.) for informing the UK government that Nigerian youths are criminally inclined and indolent, adding that Dabiri also referred to the youngsters as drug dealers and cultists.
“I don’t understand why Nigerians like demonizing their countrymen abroad. Rewind to 2016 when our president described Nigerian youngsters as mostly slackers. And given that many of them are criminals, the UK shouldn’t offer them shelter.
“The chairman of NiDCOM, Dabiri, also labeled Nigerians as drug dealers and members of cults.
She said in the interview, “So what Emdee Tiamiyu has said is in line with what our leaders are saying.”
After being offended by the presenter’s remark, Dabiri resorted to Twitter to refute her allegations and demand that the female presenters at the television station be more gender-neutral.
I put a lot of effort into getting to where I am today, so if women who aren’t even close to you feel that the only way to tear you down is to talk nonsense, they will find their Waterloo!
These women from @ARISEtv are harming the broadcast industry, and Nduka Obaigbena needs to tell them to stop, she wrote.
Tiamiyu had given an interview to the BBC in which he asserted that Nigerians applying to study in the United Kingdom merely saw it as a substitute for fleeing Nigeria.
Tiamiyu, who is renowned for advising Nigerians on pursuing higher education in the UK, observed that the majority of Nigerians were not seeking fresh credentials but rather to begin a new life abroad.
The student approach is more like a prayer being answered, he said. It is a large bracket that can accommodate many regular persons.
“We’re starting to notice that many people only conceal themselves behind the studentship. Therefore, the’student thing’ is untrue; they don’t actually require degrees, he continued.
