Prime Business Africa kick-starts journalism mentorship project

In line with its vision of building sustainable practice in Africa, leading multi-media newspaper, Prime Business Africa has launched its Journalism Mentorship Project (JMP) and appointed the first-ever Student Editor on the continent.

Guided by the editorial management team of the newspaper, the Campus Editor, Miss Success Ezeobi, of the Mass Communication Department, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), will work closely with a seven-man Campus Editorial Board carefully screened and selected with the help of Journalism teachers and other student writers.

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Prime Business Africa, Dr Marcel Mbamalu, who was present during the screening and selection process at the Mass Communication Department of UNN on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, said the project is in line with the newspaper’s philosophy of ingraining pure ethics and passion in budding journalists. Speaking to hundreds of Journalism students who gathered to witness the rigorous process of selection at UNN, Dr Mbamalu described Journalism as “a calling to courageous and patriotic vocation in development” and urged the young trainee journalists to be more “intentional” about their calling.

Mbamalu, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Newstide Publications Limited, publishers of Prime Business Africa, thanked the Head of the Department of Mass Communication at UNN, Professor Joseph Wogu, Journalism teachers, Dr Chidiebere Nwachukwu, Dr Luke Anorue and Dr Michael Ukonu, for “going the extra mile in ensuring that students willing to horn their journalism skills” got a good chance to do so.

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He promised to ensure that Prime Business Africa’s Journalism Mentorship Programme for budding Journalists remains sustainable.

He said the programme would be subsequently extended to Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal and other neighbouring countries.

The new Campus Editorial Board is led by the Campus Editor, Miss Ezeobi, Deputy Campus Editor, Mr Emmanuel Eze, Assistant Campus Editor, Elijah Akuma.

The other five Board Members are; Blessing Azoribe, Fortune Nwokedi, Peace Agbo, and Nneoma Goodness.

Supervised by Prime Business Africa’s editorial management team, the Campus Editorial Board will function to generate content on Youth Leadership matters, Entertainment, Tech, Sports and Education-based issues.

Responding to her appointment, the new campus Editor, Miss Ezeobi thanked Dr Mbamalu and Prime Business for the “opportunity to start out early.”

She described Journalism Mentorship Project as a game-changer for African youths whose dream is to become professional journalists.

“I am grateful for this rare opportunity to be appointed Campus Editor of a high-profile newspaper like Prime Business Africa,” said Miss Ezeobi.

“My heart leaps with joy because I am very certain that this project will go a long way in reawakening the true essence of Journalism in the hearts of Nigerian youths.

“I have, before now, been saddened by the very scanty efforts to raise up budding journalists ready to do something within their capacity to ensure an improved society. But today, I can see new dawn; I’m assured that this project will spur journalism to its apogee, not only in Nigeria but in the whole of Africa,” she concluded.