Olu Jacobs, Jimi Odumosu, Ijeoma Onah, others honoured at NEMCEA 2025

By Benjamin Njoku

The Electronic Media Content Owners Association of Nigeria (EMCOAN) ended the 4th variation of its Nigerian Electronic Media Content Exhibition and Awards (NEMCEA) by honouring seasoned histrion Mr Olu Jacobs and seasoned broadcaster Mr. Jimi Odumosu successful designation of their unwavering enactment to the maturation of the industry. They were honoured with Pacesetter awards.

Other awardees were Ijeoma Onah, TV manufacture enforcement who bagged the Industry Trailblazer award, Mrs Jibe Ologeh went location with the Luminary Award for Content Creation & Leadership, Distinguished Award for Good Programming went to Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) portion Radio Nigeria clinched the Distinguished Award for Social Impact Programming among different awardees.

They were honoured astatine a colourful awards ceremonial that climaxed the 2 -day gathering of stakeholders successful the media manufacture wrong and extracurricular Nigeria. The lawsuit with the theme: ‘Sustainable Content Creation successful a fragmented Media Space’ held from Tuesday, September 16 to Wednesday, 17th, 2025 successful Ikeja, Lagos and attended by stakeholders successful the industry.

In his invited address, the President of EMCOAN, Mr. Adeniji Omirin described NEMCEA arsenic a marketplace of ideas, a hub for collaboration, and a solemnisation of excellence successful the Nigerian media and originative economy.

“This twelvemonth our cardinal taxable speaks to the world we look today, an manufacture wherever audiences are scattered crossed galore platforms, yet the request for prime section contented remains strong. Our task truthful is to find ways to create, distribute, and monetize contented successful a mode that ensures sustainability for creators and worth for audiences,” helium said.

According to Omirin, the instauration of AI Master Class successful summation to the lawsuit this twelvemonth reflects EMCOAN’s content that the manufacture indispensable not beryllium near down successful the planetary integer translation portion besides reminding stakeholders of the ethical considerations that indispensable usher its use.

The Project Director, Mr. Alayande Stephen successful his address, commended the resilience, creativity and innovation of the physics media industry, adding that the taxable couldn’t beryllium much apt and befitting arsenic fragmentation presents a situation from the layman’s perspective.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Idris Mohammed Malagi, represented by Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Jibrin Baba Ndache emphasized the request for sustainable contented instauration successful Nigeria’s media landscape, noting the interaction of exertion connected accusation dissemination.

This year’s NEMCEA had successful attendance erstwhile Minister of Arts and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Dr Evelyn Nwosu, who represented the DG, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Mr. Osamede Uwubanmwen, President, Advertisers Association of Nigeria (ADVAN),, Mr. Lanre Adisa , President, Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN)., Dozie Okafor, President, Media Independent Practitioners Association of Nigeria (MIPAN) among different dignitaries.

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