Okey Bakassi Talks About His New Engagement With Channels Television

Ace comedian, Okey Bakassi, has taken humour to a new level with his latest engagement with Channels TV, an unusual news programme titled The Other News, aired at 7.30pm every Thursday.

The comedian recently explained on Classic FM why the programme, an original concept of Channels TV, was created.

He stated that the programme was borne out of a need to give a softer edge to hard news and topical issues as presented in the mass media.


“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," the comic actor said.