Professor Pat Utomi, founder of The Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), and co-founder of the Pan African University will deliver the 30th anniversary lecture of The Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) on the 4th of March 2014 at the Women Development Centre, Awka. The theme of the lecture is ‘The Media, Politics and National development’. The anniversary lecture is one of the many activities planned by the ABS to commemorate its 30th anniversary. Mr. Uche Nworah, the MD/CEO of the Anambra Broadcasting Service disclosed this to newsmen at a press conference in Awka.According to him, “We are delighted to be rolling out the drums to celebrate our 30 years of broadcasting excellence. This coming in the year that Nigeria will be switching to digital broadcasting makes it all the more exciting as ABS is also on course for full digitisation”. “Recall that the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano had in September 2014 awarded a N728 million contract for the digitisation and modernisation of ABS radio and television”, Nworah concluded. Among the 30th anniversary activities planned by the ABS include the 30th anniversary quarterly raffle draw with a Kia Rio car as the grand prize. Other prizes to be won include TV sets, refrigerators, generating sets, washing machines, smart phones plus other consolation prizes. A solidarity thank you tour of all the 21 local government areas in Anambra state, the Miss Anambra beauty pageant holding on October 30, 2015, the Anambra Beauty & Make-Up fair holding on April 19 2015and the ABS Excellence Awards scheduled for December 22, 2015 are among the activities listed in the ABS 2015 events calendar made available to newsmen. The Honourable Commissioner for Information, Culture & Tourism in Anambra state, Chief Tony Onyima remarked that “the ABS is a strategic government institution. The Willie Obiano administration will continue to support the organisation to carry out their mandate of educating, informing and entertaining Ndi Anambra at home and in the diaspora”.The Anambra Broadcasting Service came into being through Edict No.6 of 1985 which was gazetted on the 14th of March 1985. It operates an FM station (88.5) and a TV station (Channel 27) in Awka, and an FM station (90.7) and a TV station (Channel 27) in Onitsha. The station has produced notable broadcasters including Pete Edochie, Boniface Offorkaja, Rosemary Azinge, Chuzi Iboko, Paddy Eke, Ngozi Ibegbu, Henry Omereye and so on.
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