Olisa Adibua Resumes At The Beat FM

Embattled OAP and Programmes Director at Beat FM Olisa Adibua on Monday, October 31, 2011 resumed his work as host of ‘The Morning Rush‘ on Beat FM 99.9 after serving a suspension for assaulting a staff, Adewunmi Oyekanmi.
Throughout his suspension which lasted for about 7 weeks, the broadcaster-entrepreneur had continued filming on the Globacom- sponsored music talent hunt – GloNaijaSings, where he’s resident judge.
Olisa returned on The Morning Rush as his usual self – part humorous part sarcastic. It was however not the usual affair as his long time co-host Oreka ‘Rhecks’ Godis who recently resigned from the station was not by his side. He co-hosted the show with Douglas who had mistakenly announced him and former OAP Oreka has the hosts.
Adibua never made reference to why he had been missing but kept cool and calm throughout the show.
You will recall that Olisa was on Thursday, September 8, 2011 enmeshed in a solo brawl with a subordinate in the Lagos office of the urban radio station. The assaulted, Adewunmi Oyekanmi suffered injuries in the head, face and other parts of the body, while his shirt was ripped and mobile phone trampled before he was thrown out of the premises at about 3a.m in the morning. The night news editor was pummelled for sleeping on the office couch.
The result of investigations promised by the management of Beat FM is yet to be made public.
While many awaited the eventual outcome of the Olisa-Adewunmi assault investigation, Beat FM sources had assured us that, the accused, Olisa Adibua, would definitely keep his job at the radio station. While officially away, we’re told he was regularly in touch with some of the station’s presenters and would occasionally drop into the studios for a minute or two. He never went on air.

Meanwhile the management is neither denying nor confirming his resumption as the General Manager of the BEAT FM, Deji Awokoya didn’t disclose any information when asked about it through a telephone conversation. ‘No comment’, Awokoya told Nigerian Entertainment Today. Also Olisa did not immediately return his phone calls and did not reply text messages sent to his phone as at the time of this report.
Throughout his suspension, Adibua had continued filming on the Globacom sponsored Mnet Nigeria musical talent hunt – GloNaijaSings, where he’s resident judge. Producers of the show say they await the outcome of Beat FM’s investigations before taking a definite position on the assault issue.
In related news Beat FM, which has since become Nigeria’s leading urban radio station has employed four new OAPs to bolster their staff strength. The station has within this past year lost some OAPs including Ayo, Misi, Vanessa, and Rhecks.
Both the Beat FM 99.9 and Olisa Adibua have since offered apologies to the victim with assurance that such situation will not repeat itself.