The Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mallam Jibrin Ndace, has reiterated the organization’s commitment to projecting and promoting the good image of Nigeria and Africa by disseminating truthful, factual information to the rest of the world.
Mallam Ndace stated this when he welcomed the Chief Executive Officer of GOTNI Leadership Centre, Dr. Linus Okorie, in his office in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
(The GOTNI Leadership Centre is a leadership development organization. Its focus is on redefining Africa’s approach to leadership.)
“One of the missions of establishing VON is to project and promote the good Nigerian and African image to the people in diaspora,” said the DG VON.
He called on Nigerians to be patriotic in sharing and telling positive stories about the nation to change the narrative by the outside world.
“We are not saying that Nigeria is a perfect country, but there are Nigerians like you both in Nigeria and in diaspora that are doing the right things.
We should tell their stories. Your stories are stories of people like you.
…not allowing people seize the narrative and put our country in a bad light,” the DG remarked.
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Ndace described VON as the only and better platform that the Leadership Centre can collaborate with to achieve the set objectives, as the organization broadcasts in eight different languages with the intention to add more for wide and effective coverage.
“One of our strengths is that there is no organization, public or private, that has the potential like VON.
As of today, we broadcast in eight different languages: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Fulfulde, Arabic, French, English, and Kiswahili, and intend to deepen our reach to partners in the global trend to add German, Chinese, and Bahasa Indonesian official language to the existing languages that VON has,” the DG said.
The Executive Officer of the GOTNI Leadership Centre, Dr. Linus Okorie, said the aim of the visit was to provide training avenues to the staff of VON to raise leaders that will help Nigeria in providing good leadership.
Dr Okorie added that the visit was also to partner with VON for publicity and to achieve its objectives:
“We are here to collaborate with you, VON, to provide good leadership to this great institution that has human capacity and also for the world to hear us and understand us, Leadership Centre.”
About Voice of Nigeria (VON)
Voice of Nigeria (VON) is Nigeria’s official international broadcasting station. It began operation in 1961 as the External Service of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), which later became the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN). It became an independent corporation in 1990, with its own mandate and powers.
VON’s mission is to provide radio broadcasting services for global reception in different languages.
It also aims to ensure that its services reflect Nigeria’s views as a federation and give adequate expression to its culture, characteristics, affairs, and opinions.
It currently broadcasts in eight languages: Arabic, English, French, Swahili, Fulfulde, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.
