Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Ebonylife Tv Hosts President Buhari And Young Professionals In The Diaspora





EbonyLife TV, Africa’s
first Global Black entertainment and lifestyle network, is set to host
President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), and young professionals in
Washington, D.C. to a ‘Meet & Greet’ interactive session in honour and commemoration of the President’s momentous visit to the United States of America on the 21st of July, 2015.
 
The Meet & Greet, an EbonyLife televised interactive event with Mr.
President and Young Nigerian Professionals will include scholars and professionals from all over the United States. The
event has essentially been designed as an avenue to meet with, and
interact with Mr. President, on the prospects and challenges involved in the governance of Africa’s most populous nation and the role that our young professionals need to play.
The EbonyLife TV Meet & Greet is being held at the prestigious Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Washington DC,
home to Nigeria in Washington D.C, an absolute honour for EbonyLife TV and our invited guests. EbonyLife TV continues to soar daily as the most vibrant platform watched by the youth and young professionals around the world and the Meet & Greet is in continuation of the channel’s tradition of celebrating the best of Africa and indeed, Nigeria, as well as an extension of the nation building
role it played towards the 2015 General Elections. According to the Executive Chairman and CEO of EbonyLife TV, “As a channel
quintessentially made for the youth, home and abroad, we are extremely pleased that President Muhammadu Buhari appreciates the youth and has demonstrated this commitment and passion even
on this historical event to Washington DC by agreeing to include them in his very busy programme schedule. As such, he will be meeting with Young Nigerian Professionals in the Diaspora at this important Meet & Greet being organised by our channel. For this, we’re very grateful to Mr. President and his hardworking team.” At a similar forum in June 2015, the channel hosted the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru  Jega, to an interactive session with the Nigerian youth, tagged ‘Afternoon Tea with Professor Jega’. At this session in Lagos,
young and futuristic professionals from every sector of the economy
were in attendance to engage and dialogue with the highly respected Professor on some of the critical issues leading to, during and after the 2015 general elections. About EbonyLife TV EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first Global Black Entertainment and Lifestyle network, was launched on the 1st July 2013, to a pan-African audience, by a license agreement with Multichoice (DStv) Africa, Africa's largest Pay TV platform. The channel is distributed to 49 African countries, including South and Southern African. Ranked as one of the most watched channels on the DStv platform, EbonyLife TV is focused at the African youth, aged 18 to 34, annually providing over 1000 hours of premium, original, and homegrown Anglo-African entertainment programming ranging from Talk, Reality, Comedy, Drama, Factual, among others. Distribution wise, EbonyLife TV also sits on the Talk Talk and Lebara Play platforms in the UK and it has equally signed
agreements to distribute to Canada via Ethnic Channels Group Limited, with ongoing discussions with Virgin Media in the UK as well as other platforms in the UAE, the Caribbean and the US. In partnership with the Walt Disney Company the channel has produced Desperate Housewives Africa, based on the multiple award winning ABC Television drama hit series, Desperate Housewives. In acknowledgement of EbonyLife TV’s global relevance in the African media and entertainment space, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recently awarded the channel the right to host the Semi-Final round of judging of the Emmy® awards here in Nigeria.



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