Nosa Igiebor

Biographical record

Surname

Igiebor

First Name

Nosa

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

December 25, 1952

State of Origin

Edo

Name of Spouse

Harit Igiebor married in 1992

Profession

Journalist

Working Experience

Chief Correspondent Concord Newspapers, 1980 – 82;
Deputy General Editor, Newswatch Communications Limited 1990

Schools Attended with Dates

Holy Cross Primary School, 1958 – 63, Edo Boy’s School, 1964n- 68; Ghana Institute of Journalism, Accra 1973 - 76, World of Press Institute, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A, 1984

Present Appointment

Igiebor is now the president of TELL Communications alongside Dele Omotunde and Osifo Whiskey.

Previous Appointments

Igiebor began his career at the Nigerian Television Authority in Edo State, where his last position was as senior news editor. His next employer was the National Concord Group, where he was news editor. He left there to become deputy editor-in-chief for the Nigerian news magazine Newswatch

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

N/A

Awards and Honours

Press Freedom Award, 1993

Hobbies

Reading, traveling, writing

Other Relevant Information

In 1993, the Committee to Protect Journalists presented Igiebor their International Press Freedom Award,"an annual recognition of courageous journalism". Bill Orme, an editor of CPJ, commented: "What distinguished Nosa is that he is still producing and his organisation (Tell) is still reporting the news in a very lively and combative way".
In 1998, Nosa Igiebor and the staff of Tell magazine as a whole were awarded the Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat at the Amnesty International UK Media Awards. The award's notice stated; "Tell has continued to publish throughout the period of Nigerian dictatorship despite intimidation, harassment and the detention without charge or trial of Mr Igiebor and other senior members of the Tell staff."

Email Address

[email protected]

Official Address

Tell Communications Limited, Plot 26 kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos