{"id":1039,"date":"2021-08-16T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2023-05-19T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T22:22:16","slug":"kogi-to-host-nigeria-media-merit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/kogi-to-host-nigeria-media-merit-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi to Host Nigeria Media Merit Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Kogi state will host the 29th edition of the Nigeria Me<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">dia Merits Award (NMMA), the state government has announced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley <a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/2023\/05\/02\/kogi-govship-fanwo\/\">Fanwo<\/a> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebirareporters.com\">statement<\/a> issued on Monday announced the development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Fanwo said the state government and the organisers of the award will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to that effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The award ceremony is scheduled to hold in October at Lokoja, the Kogi capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u201cThis is to notify members of the prestigious 4th Estate of the Realm, as well as the general public, that the Kogi State Government and the organisers of the Nigeria Media Merit Award, which is the premier of Media Awards in Africa, shall be signing a Memorandum of Understanding on Tuesday, 17th August, 2021 as the State shall be hosting the 29TH Edition of the Awards in Lokoja in October 2021,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u201cThe signing ceremony shall take place under the supervision of the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Arike Ayoade, PhD, and the Coordinator, Ronke Bello, PhD, on the side of Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u201cIt is also instructive to note that the signing ceremony shall take place at the Conference Hall of the Secretary to the State Government by 10am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u201cKogi is poised to host the best ever NMMA as a Committee under the leadership of Ronke Bello, PhD, is working relentlessly to make the event a historic one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kogi state will host the 29th edition of the Nigeria Media Merits Award (NMMA), the state government has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[193,34,1626,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-1039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kingsley-fanwo","8":"tag-kogi","9":"tag-nigeria-media-merit-award","10":"tag-yahaya-bello"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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