Osun State governor has commended Voice of Nigeria for its laudable effort at portraying Nigeria’s cultural heritage and landmarks worldwide in its reportage, coverage and programming.
Governor Adeleke said this at the Open Day and Get-together organised by the Voice of Nigeria Southwest Zonal office at the Government House, Abeere, Osogbo, the state capitol.
Open Day is a programme organised by VON with its partners to exhibit its programmes, expose its mission, showcase its exploits and display its achievements.
Adeleke who was represented by his Special Adviser on Public Enlightenment, Eniola Odeniyi further tasked VON, as an international media organisation and the official mouthpiece of Nigeria in the global arena to enhance its partnership with Osun State in showcasing its landmarks, heritage, culture, customs and festivals to the world.
“We have in Osun, the UNESCO site, Osun Groove as well as Osun festival. We also have many tourists attractions and sites like Kiriji War Site at Igbajo, Ikogosi Water Falls amongst others. We equally have relics like Adire Osun – our traditional tie and dye wears. We need to showcase these and many more to the world and VON partnership is key in this regard”, the governor said.
The State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Mr. Wasiu Ajadosu urged Voice of Nigeria to take on the challenge of presenting the glowing virtues of ‘Omoluabi’ ethos Nigerians are renowned for globally.
Ajadosu said the achievements as well as the virtues of the good, brilliant, intelligent and wonderful Nigerians within and outside the the country far outweigh the vices of the bad elements, hence the need to showcase the positive achievements.
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Speaking before the exhibition, the VON Southwest Zonal Coordinator, Dr Mujeedah Abdul-Aleem Olagunju who thanked the State Ministry of Information team for being a wonderful host, noted that Voice of Nigeria is the nation’s only external broadcasting service that broadcasts in seven different languages to project the interest of the country and portray the laudable image of Nigeria as well as Africa to Nigerians in the Diaspora, the Black race and anyone interested in the giant of Africa.
“”At VON we do not just produce great programmes and great reports but we produce international award winning content, promote Nigerian and the African vision. This we are always proud to flaunt.
“It is our pride and our unique selling point. As you would see later at the Exhibition, we are national and international award winners for our radio programmes that are renowned worldwide. Just to mention a few, we are winners of the DAME Awards for best radio programmes, we have won the Commonwealth Broadcasting Organization awards for Best Drama Programme. We have won the African Media Initiative Excellence Award for Best African Journalist on Maritime Reporting and most recently in 2025, our English producer, Destiny Onyemihi won the Africa Media Development Foundation Journalist of the Year Award all these can be checked online and it testifies to our journalistic prowess, so come and do business with us if you truly want to go international“, she remarked.