Jerry Fisayo Bambi

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Jerry Fisayo Bambi
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Jerry in 2025
Born
Jeremiah Fisayo Bambi

Nigeria
OccupationsJournalist, show host, news anchor
Years active2011–present
Known forShow host on Africanews and Euronews
Website fisayobambi.com

Jeremiah Fisayo Bambi (born 8 December 1987) is a Nigerian journalist, producer, news writer, news anchor and showhost on Africanews and Euronews. [1] [2] [3]

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Career

For more than a decade, Jerry has been a prominent figure in African journalism, renowned for engaging in meaningful conversations about democracy, governance, and development.

His work has garnered respect and admiration at home, across Africa and beyond, with countless leaders, analysts, and citizens looking to him as a trusted voice in broadcasting.

Bambi produces and presents "Inspire Africa", a TV programme with stories of innovation, change and impact in Africa. [4] In 2021, he produced and presented a TV series of The Sahel Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) regional initiative, the result of a joint response by the United Nations and the World Bank Group to help increase women and adolescent girls' empowerment and their access to quality education and reproductive, maternal health services in the Sahel region. [5] [6] He co-hosted the breakfast news programme "The Morning Call" on Africanews, [1] a television news program on politics, culture, education, sciTech, sports and business. [7] [3] He has interviewed government leaders like the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Britain's role in Nigeria's fight against terrorism, [1] and people from the public and private sector in business and policy making in Africa. [1] [2] He was a key speaker at the EU-African Summit 2021 where he interviewed the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders and former EU Commissioner on Agriculture Phil Hogan. [8] [9]

Awards

Fisayo-Bambi, a one-time shortlisted candidate of the prestigious BBC Komla Dumor Award, was named the Nigeria Achievers Awards 2020 TV personality of the year and inducted into the 2023 Forty Under 40 Wall of Continental leaders in South Africa, categorized under the TV, Radio & Print Journalism. [10] [11]

Later in the same year, (2023) he was awarded the ‘Excellence in Journalism’ prize by the Voice Achievers Award, Almere, Netherlands.

In 2025, Jerry was named the Journalist of the year at the Nigerians in the Diaspora Awards (NIDA) in Paris and listed by the Global Centre for Innovative Leaders (GCIL) in the UK as one of the 100 outstanding global innovative leaders. (https://lagoscityreporters.com/150192-2/)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "'The Morning Call': LIVE daily for 60 minutes" (PDF). Euronews. 27 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Why media enterprises should align with economic reality –Fisayo-Bambi, Anchor, Inspire Africa". 12 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Bambi, telling African stories in the Morning Call". 9 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "Building technology that caters for Africans {INSPIRE AFRICA}". 26 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "The Tanzanian woman bridging the justice gap with a digital platform [Inspire Africa] – Akıllı Gündem". 30 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "The telemedicine innovation impacting health care in Uganda". 28 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "Inspire Africa | Africanews".
  8. ↑ "2021 Programme".
  9. ↑ "Speakers".
  10. ↑ "Contestant Profile". elfrique.com.
  11. ↑ "Africanews' journalist honoured by Forty Under 40 Africa". 4 April 2023.


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