The Association of Proprietors of Private Media Establishment of Nigeria (APPMEN) has honoured former Adamawa State first girl, Ambassador Dr Zainab Boni Haruna, for her humanitarian service and inaugurated its Lagos State Council to strengthen professionalism, safety and financial alternatives for personal media practitioners.
Haruna, who served as first girl from 1999 to 2007, was embellished as a Nigeria We Want Ambassador for Humanitarian Service and Social Impact and appointed a member of APPMEN’s National Advisory Council at a ceremony in Abuja on Friday.
The nationwide coordinator of APPMEN, Chief Precious Enebuse, stated the honour recognised Haruna’s contributions to rural empowerment via her Rural Empowerment Acceleration Programme (REAP) and her continued dedication to humanitarian service after leaving workplace.
He stated her appointment to the council, the affiliation’s highest advisory organ, would allow APPMEN to profit from her expertise and networks in advancing personal media follow.
In her response, Haruna stated she initially questioned the rationale for honouring public officeholders for duties related to their positions however accepted after being satisfied of APPMEN’s credibility and imaginative and prescient.
She pledged to help the event of personal media and humanitarian reporting.
In a associated improvement, APPMEN inaugurated its Lagos State Council on Saturday, October 10, at Alimosho, Lagos, with its National Coordinator, Enebuse, presiding nearly from Abuja.
The newly inaugurated council, led by State Coordinator Princess Agbonifo, unveiled a three-point agenda of professionalism, safety and prosperity to deal with challenges going through personal media proprietors.
Agbonifo introduced plans for quarterly coaching in fact-checking, investigative journalism, digital monetisation and synthetic intelligence via the APPMEN Institute for Communication and Media Studies.
She additionally pledged to ascertain a Rapid Response Desk to help members going through harassment or intimidation and to have interaction the Lagos State Government and safety companies on media safety.
Under the prosperity agenda, the council plans to pursue company promoting partnerships and set up a cooperative to facilitate entry to digital-platform monetisation, grants and loans. Agbonifo set a goal for each financially lively member to generate revenue via the council’s initiatives by October 2027.
In a message to the inauguration, APPMEN’s Grand Patron described Lagos as a historic centre of Nigerian journalism, recalling the institution of Iwe Irohin by Reverend Henry Townsend in 1859.
He urged the council to uphold skilled requirements, embrace digital media practitioners and set up a fact-checking hub and promoting community to enhance collaboration and monetary sustainability.
The Lagos Council, in a communiqué, pledged loyalty to the nationwide management and referred to as on unregistered personal media proprietors within the state to hitch the affiliation.
APPMEN says it has greater than 1,000 members nationwide. Its flagship Nigeria We Want Project seeks to recognise credible Nigerians and promote a optimistic nationwide narrative.
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