The Director General, Voice of Nigeria, Nigeria’s external service broadcaster, Abubakar Jijiwa has been elected into the six-member executive committee of the Association for International Broadcasting, AIB, after a global online voting among broadcasting players and stakeholders.
Others elected to the Executive Committee are Mark Bunting of BBC Global News, John Maguire of AEF/F24/RFI, Klaus Bergmann of DW, Margarita Simonyan of RT and Lindsey Oliver of Bloomberg
The notice of his election was contained in an email message from the CEO of AIB, Simon Spanswick, sent to all the newly elected members.
Jijiwa is also currently the chairman of the Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria, BON. Between 2006 and 2010, he served a two-term as the President of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, CBA.
He has been a strong advocate of responsible Public Service Broadcasting, and placed high premium on training and re-training of broadcasters to be able to meet the challenges of the of the rapidly evolving media environment driven by new information and communication technology and demand multi-platform delivery of media contents.
His latest project in Nigeria is to ensure that the Voice of Nigeria Training Centre becomes an international broadcast resource centre of excellence which would be unrivalled in Africa in broadcast production, technology and management training, tapping into local and international resources and networks, including the AIB where a number of VON producers have won awards for their production recently.
The Association for International Broadcasting – AIB – is the industry association that represents and supports international television and radio broadcasters.
Founded in 1993, the AIB has developed into a truly global organisation whose membership extends from New Zealand west through to Canada and the USA. The AIB provides its members with market intelligence, lobbying, networking and marketing support. It publishes a quarterly print magazine, The Channel, that has a regular subscriber base of more than 5,600 senior executives in broadcasting and electronic media organisations in over 120 countries. The AIB also produces regular electronic news letters that reach the desktops of more than 14,000 people worldwide.
The AIB has an immense collection of data about broadcasting and electronic media covering territories throughout the world. As part of its role to support the broadcasting industry, the AIB publishes an annual Directory of Global Broadcasting with extracts of its data concerning broadcasters, regulators and key personnel.
The AIB is a not-for-profit organisation with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. It is governed by an Executive Council of six members elected from the AIB’s membership. The AIB’s permanent staff is led by Chief Executive Simon Spanswick.
