Sumner Sambo Shagari
Sumner Sambo Shagari
Sumner Sambo Shagari is an award winning Journalist based in Abuja, Nigeria. He is a multi-skilled Journalist and multimedia professional and works with the News Central Television. He has always been passionate about TV Journalism, working especially with start-ups to rejuvenate broadcasting across Nigeria and Africa. He combines his skills with other creative minds to reposition news coverage and programme delivery for premium content consumers in Nigeria and on the continent.[1]
Career
Sumner Sambo Shagari was a Senior Correspondent/Deputy Bureau Chief with TVC News, a Pan-African news channel broadcasting from Lagos State, Nigeria. Prior to that, he was a Stringer with Reuters and a Senior National Correspondent with NN24 TV, Nigeria. He currently works with the News Central Television. He also had a stint with The Nation Newspaper and regularly publishes NEWSMAN, an online newsblog on Facebook.
Sumner has always been passionate about television news journalism, working especially with start-ups to rejuvenate broadcasting across Nigeria and Africa. He recently joined one of Africa's newest and promising channels, News Central Television, in a bid to combine his skills with other creative minds to reposition news coverage and program delivery for premium content consumers in Nigeria and on the continent. [5][2]
Awards
He is a 2017/2018 Fellow of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).
He also won the 2015/2016 Nigeria Investigative Journalist of the Year (TV) award run by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ)
He was also the winner of the 2016/2017 Senate Reporter of the Year (TV) award organized by the Senate Press Corps of Nigeria's National Assembly.
He has also won other awards like the Most Promising Youth, 2011/2012 presented to him by the Chamber Social Club, Abuja.[3]
Personal
Sumner Sambo Shagari currently resides in Abuja, Nigeria. He is a newsy person, and believes that the greatest investment in life is the cross-fertilization of ideas. He bagged both his MSc and BSc in Mass Communication from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; he is a technology-savvy and probing mind who also acts as a Fixer for many international news crews coming into Nigeria or West Africa to source for interviews and news stories.[4]