Anambra Broadcasting Service' 30th Anniversary Calender...

Professor Pat Utomi, founder of The Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), and co-founder of the Pan African University will deliver the 30^th anniversary lecture of The Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) on the 4^th of March 2014 at the Women Development Centre, Awka. 

L-R: Uche Nworah, MD/CEO of Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) welcoming Bob-Manuel Udokwu to the press conference.

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 30^th 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”. 

L-R: Uche Nworah, MD/CEO of Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), Bob-Manuel Udokwu and Miss Chizoba Ejike (Miss Independence Anambra) at the press conference.

“Recall that the state governor, His Excellency, Chief Willie Obiano had in September 2014 awarded a 728 million naira contract for the digitisation and modernisation of ABS radio and television”, Nworah concluded. 

Among the 30^th anniversary activities planned by the ABS include the 30^th 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 the 30^th of October 2015, the Anambra Beauty & Make-Up fair holding on the 19^th of April 2015and the ABS Excellence Awards scheduled for 22^nd December 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 14^th 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 et al.