10th June Johannesburg, 2017: There are around 17 million Nigerians in Diaspora remitting a staggering $22 billion back home annually according to the Economist magazine Nigeria’s diaspora is a source of money, market, skills and ideas.
Nigeria diaspora television birthed in Johannesburg, South Africa is the brainchild of British-born Nigerian Adetunji Omotola, pan African Analyst and media personality.
After many years of residency in South Africa, Omotola felt it was time to tell positive stories about Nigerians in South Africa and about Nigerians around the world. Nigerians are a happy, determined set of people and very intellectual. Omotola says. After the xenophobic attacks on some Nigerians in Rossettenville, Johannesburg and Pretoria West in February and March, 2017 he felt that there was a need for a more direct response.
Nigeria Diaspora Television (NDTV) is the first media channel of its kind which seeks to explore the Nigerian version of events and its peoples achievements in South Africa.
Broadcast online via Youtube, the channel carries news, views and informs its audience about business, academics, health and lifestyle as well as politics in the Nigerian community in SA and the rest of the world.
NDTV will give Nigerian issues a face and unpack issues which Nigerians face in their everyday life as well as their activities, visions, achievements and dreams, broadcast twice a month for 15mins and anchored by Adetunji Omotola(Head of Content) with co-hosted Ms. Chinaka Iwunze.
Adetunji is also the host of Afro Bizz on KayaFMBizz a weekly business show which focuses on African economies and markets and Chinaka holds a Master’s degree in Film from the University of California, Los Angeles. They are both very passionate about Nigeria.
The rest of the team consists of Producer, Erald Felix, content co-ordinator, Tope Arenyeka and Executive Producer Ekos Akpokabayen.
Nigerians in South Africa straddle all walks of life from the media to the academia, financial services, agriculture, legal, mining, property, academia and many other fields such as fashion and the movie business, Omotola says and Nigeria Diaspora Television aims to tell their stories.
NDTV has recently interviewed Fmr. President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, the Consulate General Nigeria in SA, Godwin Adama, and the President of the Pan-African Parliament.
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