The Managing Director and Editor-in-chief of The Next Edition online news platform, Ms. Victoria Ibanga, has been appointed into the Board of the International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos.
Ms. Ibanga, until recently the General Secretary, Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, currently serves as Treasurer of the body of Editors.
Her appointment followed the reconstitution of the Centre’s Governing Board, at the weekend.
Other appointees into the Board include: Mrs. Funke-Treasure Durodola a multiple award winning international broadcast journalist and Assistant Director of Programmes at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Lagos and Mr. Gbemiga Ogunleye, a lawyer, seasoned journalist and current Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Nigeria’s leading journalism training institution.
The appointments were announced in a statement by the Executive Director and Secretary to the Board of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, at the end of the organisation’s board meeting and annual staff/management retreat in Lagos on September 20 and 21, 2019.
Arogundade said the three new members of the Board bring its total number to six.
The rest are Mr. Edet Ojo, a journalist, Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda, MRA, and Chair of the Board of the Media Foundation for West Africa and Mr. Wale Adeboye, an environmental rights activist, a former CNN African Journalist of the year, winner of the Diamond Media Merit Award, and the Executive Director of Journalists for Democratic Rights.
In the statement signed by IPC’s Programme Manager, ‘Sanmi Falobi, Arogundade said: “The scholarly, intellectual, professional and gender diversity of the new Board demonstrates the commitment and readiness of IPC to continue to deliver on its mandate as Nigeria’s leading media development and press freedom organisation.
“We are also sure that given their vast experience and commitment to media professionalism, the board members will add value to our work in the areas of capacity building, media monitoring, campaigns, advocacy, networking and partnerships to advance the course of media freedom, media independence, safety of journalists and enhance the role of the media in development and democratic governance.”
According to him, the board members would be publicly presented during the forthcoming public lecture and airing of a documentary as part of a series of activities to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of IPC, the details of which will be announced soon.
IPC. Press release on reconstitution of board and 20th anniversary
