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Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt

a radio station in Nigeria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ18390265 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rhythm 93.7 FM is a commercial radio station located in the Old GRA neighborhood of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The station broadcasts an urban contemporary radio format, playing a variety of music genres including R&B, hip hop, with occasional electronic dance music and reggae. It is owned and operated by Silverbird Communications under the Silverbird Group company and is one of the most popular private radio stations in the south of Nigeria.

Line-up

Staff

Disc Jockeys

DJ Best

DJ DoubleD

DJ Golden

DJ Stonebridge

Presenters

Azubuike Wokocha

Stephanie Obuzo

Charlse Baridam

Ben Wakama

Notable former on-air staff

Andre Blaze, currently works at The Virtuoso Company

Ifeoma Iphie Aggrey-Fynn (died 2015)

Cleopatra Tawo, now with Planet FM 101.1 in Uyo

Incidents

Legal issues

On 19 December 2005, two of the station's radio hosts Klem Ofuokwu and Cleopatra Tawo were arrested and charged with giving false news report of a Bridge Failure. They were detained for two weeks and then released on bail.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt” is a radio station in Nigeria. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rhythm, Port and Harcourt, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. For this dossier, Rhythm, Port and Harcourt is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “a radio station in Nigeria” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18390265. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2005.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt primary sources, Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt archive and Rhythm research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rhythm 93.7 FM Port Harcourt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.