Turning off the music in Nigeria

In protest at the claimed non-payment of royalties by radio stations, Nigerian artists called for today to be a "no music day" on Nigerian radio.

Not quite sure I'm following the logic - if Nigerian radio stations don't pay to play music, why are they happy to take part in an event to draw attention to the problem rather than simply paying?

And since many stations just took the opportunity to play non-local music, the whole thing sounds like a bit of a own goal. Not that the foreign artists would have got any royalties, either. Perhaps Feargal Sharkey could go to Nigeria to help a music industry with actual problems? I'm sure we could spare him.

Bill Drummond's "Look at Bill Drummond Day" declared a success

Bill Drummond's latest wheeze, a no music today, has been taken up by BBC Radio Scotland, who have replaced music in the schedule with a surprising number of programmes featuring Bill Drummond instead. Which, we're sure, wasn't in any way Drummond's motivation in the first place.

Although since Drummond owes his success and position to music, shouldn't he be also barred from the day? Otherwise it could be argued that instead of removing music from our lives, we're just living off music at one remove.

Couldn't we have a no sport day, instead?