CHAPTER ONE

• Introduction

The Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) was undertaken FEDERAL RADIO
COOPERATION OF NIGERIA

Brief History of SIWES

The Student’s Industrial Works Experience (SIWES) is a mandatory training for all students of
higher institution of learning to put in practice the theoretical aspect of what they have learnt
before graduation. The programme is mainly design to prepare students towards the challenges
they will meet in the future when given the opportunity to work.

It is aim at exposing students to machine and equipment, professional work method and ways of
safeguarding the work area and industries.

SIWES was established in the year 1993 to 1974 and it was introduced to acquaint students with
the skills of handling employers. The industrial training fund (ITF) solely founded the scheme
during it information years. But as the financial involvement become unbearable to them, it
withdraw from the scheme in 1979 to both the National University Commission (NUC) and the
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).

Later the Federal Government in November 1984 inverted the management and implementation
of the SIWES programme to ITF again, and it was effectively taken by ITF in July 1985 with the
funding solely borne by the Federal Government.

SIWES (Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme ) is a scheme for the duration of sixteen
weeks (4 months) for polytechnic and in the third year in universities depending on the
institutions.

Role of The Federal Government

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Federal Government being the major party in the establishment of SIWES, has ever since been
involved in the management of SIWES. Some of the roles played are:

• To make it mandatory for all ministries, companies, companies and parastatals to

offer places of attachment for students in accordance with the provision of Decree
No 47 of 1971 as amended in 1990.

• To provide necessary and adequate fund to ITF through Federal ministries of

industries.

1.1 Role Of Industrial Training Fund (ITF)

i. supervise students through its Area Offices

ii. Provide logistics and materials needed to administer the scheme

1.2 Aim and Objectives of SIWES

• To prepare students for their industrial work and the challenges they will likely meet
after graduation

• For students to acquire the theoretical aspect of what they learnt in the class room and
put them into practical

• To build student moral and standard in order to fit in the modern technology and
equipment installed in the world organization today.

• To enable the students practically involved in the scheme and the journey of their
academic is said to be completed else it will be hallway done

• To discipline the students and help them to gain experience

• To ensure peaceful co-existence in real life involving practical in the programmes

1.3 Achievement Recorded by the scheme

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 The technical reports on SIWES so far have shown that, the programme is indeed a
means of practicalising all work done or learnt during the student’s theoretical aspect of
their course of study.

The following are some of the achievement recorded by the scheme is below:

• The scheme has helped the students in performing well after their course of study
as they experience what is written practically in the classroom.

• The scheme has also recorded success on how to maintain peace and human
relation among students of various institutions

• Student acquires vocational and desirable habit for work which is essential to any
successful occupation

1.4 Brief History of Federal Radio Cooperation Of Nigeria

Federal Radio Corporation is a leading radio broadcast organization in Nigeria office in Garki,
Abuja, Nigeria. The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria was founded in 1933 by the British
colonial government. Named the Radio Diffusion Service (RDS), it allowed the public to hear
the British Broadcasting Corporation's foreign radio service broadcasts in certain public locations
over loudspeakers.

In April 1950, the RDS became the Nigerian Broadcasting Service and introduced radio stations
in Lagos, Kaduna, Enugu, Ibadan, and Kano. This service was reorganized into the Nigerian
Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) on April 1, 1957, by act of parliament. Its mission was to
"provide, as a public service, independent and impartial broadcasting services". By 1962 the
NBC had expanded its broadcast stations into Sokoto, Maiduguri, Ilorin, Zaria, Jos, and Katsina
in the north; Port Harcourt, Calabar, and Onitsha in the East; and Abeokuta, Warri, and Ijebu-
Ode in the West. Each of these stations was considered a subsidiary station of a regional station.
The subsidiary stations broadcast local interest programs during part of the day, and then relayed
programming from their regional station during the rest of the broadcast day. National programs
were broadcast from two shortwave transmitters and one medium wave transmitter located in
Sogunle, near Lagos.

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Organization Chart for Federal Radio cooperation Of Nigeria

Director
general

Deputy director H/R

D.G news program Studio manager

Production manager

Technical crew

Director of news Marketing

and programs Manager
News caster Accounting
Presenter
Chief editor, sub Writer
editor, columnist Advertisers P.Rs
Photography
videography

Reporters, field
journalist
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 CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Arrival And Posting

I reported at Federal Radio Cooperatoin Of Nigeria on 31st May 2021

I was introduced to my supervisor and other IT students at the news room.

2.1 Activities Carried Out

• I was taught tha link are words, paragraphs, and sentence used to connect two or more
items together in a magazine program seamlessly

• I was introduced to vox pop

• I learnt that Vox pop is an interview where by you ask different people a particular
question and it is usually done outside the studio e.g market, car stands e.t.c

• I was introduced to adobe audition an audio editing app use for editing audios e.t.c

• I was given a recorded interview to listen to and bring out the key point out of it and to
list out the mistake

• I was given an unedited file to edit using adobe audition 1.5

• I was enlightened briefly on how to convert video files to an audio file

• I was taught the meaing of production and how production takes place

• I was taught the basics of writing a script

• I was able to know the three parts of a script

• I was shown the equipment that ae inside the studio and their uses

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 CHAPTER THREE
3.0 Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation

3.1 Summary and Conclusion

The SIWES exercise was sincerely a wonderful experience ever, as the program has indeed
widened my knowledge practically and it has exposed me more solving some technical issues in
the broadcasting unit. Despite the challenges encountered I never regret been part of the exercise.

Moreover, I was deployed to programmed department where I was taught how to present live
programme and also how to transmit and direct program from the studio. One of the major
challenges faced during the programme was inferiority complex especially having a stage fright
when I was about to given a trial to air in the studio

The Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) help to provide an opportunity to
apply theoretical knowledge in real life situation and expose me to move practical works
methods techniques. It also prepare students for the labor market after graduation.

3.2 Recommendations
This student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) programme should be made
compulsory and mandatory for all students. The student involved should be orient about benefit
and essence of SIWES. Student should be made aware of and get corrected that SIWES is not for
money acquisition rather it is for knowledge, experience and practical exposure to his/her course
of study for future benefits proper welfare of student should be catered for (in terms of
treatment).

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 REFERENCES

Http/www.FederalRadioCooperationOfNigeria.com

Federal Radio Cooperation Of Nigeria