A Nigerian journalist working with Euronews France, Jerry Fisayo Bambi, is set to receive the Excellence Award in Journalism in the Netherlands.
Jerry as he is fondly called is one of the distinguished personalities from across the world that will be honoured on 29th September, 2023, at ‘The Voice Achievers Award 2023’ in Almere, The Netherlands.
Some of the past winners of the award include former Kenyan vice president, Kolonzo Musyoka, South African politician, Lindiwe Sisulu and Nigeria’s Labour Party presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi.
Bambi is a media personality blazing the trail and distinguishing himself as an award winning African journalist of global reckoning.
Jerry began his career in Nigeria as a journalist with the Steam and Globe Broadcasting limited, and Info Nigeria ltd, owners of Coolfm and Nigeria Info 99.3 respectively.
He would later work in various capacities for other top media groups in the West African nation including Group 8 owners of ONTV, Spice TV and Soundcity.
He soon signaled serious intent in his field when he presented coverage of the Nigeria Economic Summit 2014 and the World Economic Forum for Africa the same year.
He interviewed the chairman of the Dangote group, Aliko Dangote on the role of education to the development of the Nigerian economy and also interviewed the former British prime minister, Gordon Brown on Britain’s role in the fight against terrorism in Nigeria the same year.
With a continental vision, Jerry set out for Pointe Noire, the Republic of Congo where he learnt French and joined the bilingual independent international channel Africanews.
He became the face of the news channel and one of the two presenters for the daily live breakfast magazine ‘The Morning Call’ which sometimes polled an average TV audience of 6.3 million views across Africa.
The impact of the show led to a big campaign that put him and his co host, the Harvard Neiman Fellow, Hannane Ferdjani on the pages of top business magazines in Africa, -Jeune Afrique, New African magazine, African Business.
It also put him on billboards in major capital cities in Africa and France- Abuja, Accra, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Libreville, Brazzaville, Pointe noire, Paris (metro stations).
