How we checked METRO FM LAGOS
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
Metro 97.7 FM is one of three FM stations run by Radio Nigeria Lagos, the Lagos arm of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, alongside Bond 92.9 FM and Radio One 103.5 FM. The operator's own words on the station's page are "In Lagos, we have 3 FM Stations, Bond 92.9 FM, Metro 97.7FM and Radio-one 103.5 FM", under the group masthead "Radio Nigeria Lagos ...Uniting the Nation". Metro sells its own airtime under a BON approved rate card headed "METRO 97.7 FM RATE CARD", with its own studio telephone line and its own branded social accounts. The operator gives Metro a page of its own but fills it with the group newsroom feed rather than with station programming.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Artists
none. The operator publishes no playlist, no song history and no now playing feed for Metro FM.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Contact route
yes, and several kinds. A studio telephone number listed specifically against Metro FM (the site lists a separate number for each of the three stations), a shared newsroom email address, a WhatsApp link and a Facebook link in the site header, a postal studio address in Ikoyi, and the station's own Facebook page name and X handle printed at the foot of its rate card. No online contact form and no request line.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metrofm/
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Era
not applicable. The operator publishes nothing about the music era, and I will not infer one.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Music
not stated as a format. The rate card describes a mixed speech and music commercial service: commercial news bulletins, national news, political news, political interviews, sponsored programmes, obituary announcements in news bulletins, interviews inside programmes, and outside broadcasts both live and recorded.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Language
not stated by the operator anywhere I could read. Every Metro FM page and the station's own rate card are written in English, and the rate card's on-air trade terms (Time Check, On-Air Personality Hype, Commercial News Bulletins, Spot Advert in National News) are English, so the catalogue's existing "en" is consistent with the station's own material, but the operator does not state the on-air language and I am not treating the language of the website as proof of the language of the broadcast.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Kind
a staffed live station. The rate card prices outside broadcasts by the hour in two forms, "PREPAID O. B. (LIVE)" excluding the phone line and "O. B (RECORDED)", and prices live news adjacency and fixed time placement, all of which describe a manned transmission day rather than automated playout.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
the page the operator's own menu labels "METRO 97.7 FM" carries no Metro FM programming content at all. It renders the Radio Nigeria Lagos newsroom feed, dated to the day I read it, so the single piece of genuinely Metro specific material the operator publishes about its own station is the rate card image.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Where
Lagos, Nigeria, on 97.7 FM, from the Radio Nigeria Lagos premises on Ikoyi Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. The frequency comes from the operator's own sentence quoted above, from its navigation item "METRO 97.7 FM", and from the heading on the station's own rate card. This is demonstrably the Lagos FRCN station and not the South African SABC Metro FM or the Turkish Metro FM, because the only source used is the Lagos operator's own .gov.ng domain.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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On air
none. The rate card sells a "PRE-PAYMENT ON-AIR PERSONALITY HYPE" and quotes the OAP fee as negotiable, which establishes that named on-air personalities work there, but the operator names none of them on any page of its site. I looked on the station page, the rate card and the site's author and category listings, which carry newsroom bylines for written articles only.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
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Programmes
none named. The station's own rate card sets out dayparts rather than titles, and those are the only scheduled times the operator publishes: AAA rate 6:00 AM to 12:00 NOON and 3.30 PM to 10.00 PM, AA rate 5:30 AM to 6:00 AM and 12:00 NOON to 3.30 PM, with paid announcement junctions at 12.00NOON, 4.30PM, 6.10PM, 6:45PM and 7.30PM. I looked on the station's own page at /metrofm/, on the rate card page at /metro-fm-rate-card/, and across the whole site navigation and internal link list; the site has no schedule or programmes page at all.
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Radio Nigeria Lagos, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (station rate card read at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| homepage url |
https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metrofm/
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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No homepage is stored. This is the page the station's own operator designates for it: Radio Nigeria Lagos, the Lagos arm of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, gives Metro FM this address and links to it from a navigation item labelled 'METRO 97.7 FM'. The same operator's text confirms the station's identity and frequency in its own words, 'In Lagos, we have 3 FM Stations, Bond 92.9 FM, Metro 97.7FM and Radio-one 103.5 FM', which also settles that this row is the Lagos FRCN station and not the South African SABC Metro FM or the Turkish station of the same name. One caveat worth keeping on file: although the operator titles this page 'MetroFm', it renders the group newsroom feed rather than station programming, so the only Metro specific material it leads to is the station's own rate card at https://radionigerialagos.gov.ng/metro-fm-rate-card/. The station has no separate domain; metrofm.gov.ng and three other plausible variants do not resolve. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| a 1977 founding date, an "adult contemporary" format label, a claimed earlier 97.6 frequency, and named programme titles | all of these reached me only through radio directory pages and aggregator listings, which this catalogue does not accept as sources, and not one of them appears anywhere on Radio Nigeria Lagos's own site.
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| whatever the FRCN national station list says about Metro Lagos | the page at radionigeria.gov.ng/fm-stations/ returned HTTP 403 to me, so I did not read it, and I will not cite a page I could not open.
source |
| the names of on-air personalities | the rate card proves they exist, but the operator names none, and importing names from any other source would be exactly the substitution this catalogue withdrew 213 facts over.
source |
| the group level statement "the largest Radio Network in Africa" as a claim about Metro FM | it is FRCN's description of the whole national network, not of this station, and attributing a network's claim to one channel is the error being guarded against in this batch.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: METRO FM LAGOS — listed via Radio Browser · https://go.webgateready.com/metrofm/radio.mp3