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Jerry Fisayo Bambi is a Nigerian Journalists working with euro news France, He began his career in Nigeria as a journalist with the Steam and Globe Broadcasting limited, and Info Nigeria ltd, owners of Cool FM and Nigeria Info 99.3 respectively. He also worked for other top media groups like Group 8 owners of ONTV, Spice TV and Sound city.
He was outstanding in his coverage of the Nigeria Economic Summit 2014 and the World Economic Forum for Africa same year. He interviewed the chairman of the Dangote group Aliko Dangote on the role of education to the development of the Nigerian economy and also interviewed the former British Prime minister Gordon Brown on Britain’s role in the fight against terrorism in Nigeria the same year. Jerry learnt French and joined the bilingual independent international channel Africa news, He became the face of the news channel and one of the two presenters for the daily live breakfast magazine ‘The Morning Call’ which sometimes polled an average TV audience of 6.3 million views across Africa.
The impact of the show led to a big campaign that put him and his cohost, the Harvard Neiman Fellow, Hannane Ferdjani on the pages of top business magazines in Africa, -Jeune Afrique, New African magazine, African Business among others.It also put him on bill boards in major capital cities in Africa and France- Abuja, Accra, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Libreville, Brazzaville, Pointe noire, Paris (metro stations).In 2019, Jerry started the production of ‘Inspire Africa’, a show that told the stories of people making change, innovation and impact in Africa.His show got several partnerships including World Bank led project SWEDD and the NBA Africa Junior League.He was voted the TV personality of the year award 2020 in Nigeria.
Jerry continues to inspire younger generations of African journalists like Paul Njie in Cameroon, Eric Kawa in Sierra Leone, Vânio Ricardo Nimbi in Angola, Sam Paul (Nigeria) Caleb Okereke (Nigeria) among others.He is set to receive Excellence Award in Journalism on 29th September, at The Voice Achievers Award 2023 in Almere, Netherlands.
Some of the past winners of the award include former Kenyan Vice President, Kolonzo Musyoka, South African politician, Lindiwe Sisulu and Nigeria’s Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the last election, Peter Obi.Some of his past awards and recognitions include: a 2016 BBC Komla Dumor shortlisted candidate, Nigeria Achievers Award TV personality of the year 2020, Honorary award recipient for Inspire Africa, Bonteh Digital Media Awards, Cameroon 2021 and 2023 nominee of the 40under40 Africa awards.Jerry Fisayo Bambi has also moderated several high level panels with global leaders in conferences such as the EU- Africa summit, Global Education Series Forum GESF, Africa forum to mention a few.The Voice Achievers Award started in 2012 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and has recognized over 250 recipients including African businesses, individuals, corporate organisations, governmental institutions and ordinary citizens contributing to the advancement of humanity in Africa
