Meet the resource persons for Sportspro 2015

 

bode Akinboye (1)

  1. BODE AKINBOYE, Group Managing Director, Standard Alliance Insurance Group

Bode Akinboye has a verifiable and significant record of performance in the Insurance Industry. Until his assumption of his current office, he was the Vice Chairman of Gemrock Management Company Limited, the special purpose vehicle which acquired strategic stake in Standard Alliance Insurance Plc in December 2014. He had an exemplary career spanning close to twenty years as Financial Controller, AGM Oil/Energy, Financial Institution Marketing, Managing Director/Chief Executive and then Group Managing Director of Standard Alliance Group from where he left in 2009 to set up the private equity company.

As the then Group Managing Director/Group Chief Operating Officer of Standard Alliance Group, he was responsible for co-ordinating the strategic plans of the six-member companies with focus on non-Life Insurance, Life Assurance, Pension Funds Administration, Asset Management, Mortgage Banking, Property and other investments. Bode was also responsible for driving the team that transformed Standard Alliance Group into one of the most formidable, innovative and profitable non-bank financial services group in Nigeria. During his earlier tenure at Standard Alliance Insurance Plc, he led the team to achieve listing and quotation of the company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, grew its asset base to over N20bn and facilitated foreign direct investments of about USD$20m to the company.

A former Management Accountant with Industrial and General Insurance Plc (IGI) before joining Standard Alliance Insurance Plc, Bode is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN); Member, Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM); Member, Institute of Directors (IOD) and an Alumnus of Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-African University. He is also a graduate of the Owner President Management Programme (OPM) and an Alumnus of Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. He has attended various courses locally and internationally.

Bode served on the Governing Council of the Nigerian Insurers Association and was the Treasurer of the Association for four years.
He is a strategist in product packaging, marketing and corporate management; public speaker and an expert in capacity building and human resources development.

Bode Akinboye will be speaking on “Insurance and Sports Development” – Protecting the assets and liabilities of Sports Organisations.

Assets are what the organization owns, every organization requires assets to run its operations. Many Sport Organizations own sport facilities in other for them to run a successful business, but mismanagement and lack of protecting the assets allow such organization to either bankrupt or government clutch the facilities. Getting such facilities insured by Insurance companies allows sport organization facilities to be safe guarded, help manage their risk level.

Liabilities are those things sport organization owe other, owing debts hinder the growth of such Sport Organization. Tackling and Protecting the Assets are what Mr Bode Akinboye will be shedding more light on.

Mitchell Obi (1)

Mr Mitchell Obi, President MITCHELL OBI, President International Association of Sports Journalists (AIPS) Africa

A graduate of the University of Ife , Nigeria and University of Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire with a Bachelors of Arts (Hon) degree and Higher Diploma respectively between 1977 and 1982, Mitchell had a stint at the Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Chartered Institute of Marketing and many others for diplomas, certificates all related to media and marketing communication.

From a first endeavour as a trained Maritime Claims Manager in 1976, through reportorial and teaching stints at different times, he rose from Sports Editor in 1984 at Nigeria’s flagship daily newspaper, The Guardian, to become Editor, Guardian Express and Acting Editor, The Guardian On Sunday. He was appointed and served as Special Adviser to the Honorable Minister of Sports and later Transport, from 1990 to 1993.

Mitchell anchors and presents the oldest and longest running award winning daily sports show on television (Sports Extra) and radio. Known also to have pioneered column syndication across major newspapers in Nigeria, Mitchell has been involved as a journalist in seven football World Cup finals, six Olympic Games and four Commonwealth Games, three Wimbledon Championships, no fewer than 14 Nations Cup finals, World Athletics And Swimming Championships and many other sporting events including bidding teams .

He was awarded Sports Columnist of the Year 1985, Best Television Sports Talk show 1994, Distinguished Alumni Award, Obafemi Awolowo University Ife 2004, Best Radio Sports Programme -2007, and many more since then. His published works include:
Funding of Nigerian Sports: Marketing and Commercialisation
Winning the CAF Champions League.

Mitchell is a frontline member of the AIPS Executive Committee since 2005 and President of AIPS Africa today.

His paper would be on “Ethics and Sports Journalism”.

Below are Ethics guideline for Media organization.

*Sports editors should be aware of standards of conduct of groups and professional associations to which their writers belong.

*Do not accept free memberships or reduced fee for membership. Do not accept gratis use of facilities such as golf courses or tennis courts, unless it is used as part of doing a story for the media house.

*Do not collect a certain amount just because you want to publish a story (Brown Envelope).

*Assignment should be made on merit, without regard for race or gender.

Sport Journalism is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and games. Sport journalism includes organization devoted entirely to sport reporting. Most Media houses sport department are diverting away from sport journalism and relating with stories that doesn’t concern them. To be a Sport Journalist, you must have a relative degree in Journalism or Mass communications, after gign through trainings. Media Organizations are deviating away from employing Sport Journalist to employing staff who have no background or relative view about Journalism.

Mitchell Obi will be addressing us on the ‘Ethics and Sports Journalism’.

Emeka Mba (1)

Mr Emeka Mba, Director General, National Broadcasting Commission.

Emeka Nkem Mba is considered by many of his peers as a leading visionary in the converged fields of media, entertainment and technology, with over 23 years cross functional experiences in the converged fields of media & broadcasting, communications technology, and regulatory policy management. Prior to this appointment as Director General, NBC, Emeka had served for seven years between 2005 and July 2012 as Director General of the National Film and Video Censors Board, where he undertook ground-breaking work in restructuring the Nigerian film industry.

Emeka was for a short while Managing Director of Phillips Media Entertainment Ltd, a specialised media entertainment consulting service of Phillips Consulting Nigeria, and was for eight and a half years, Regulatory Affairs Manager for Multichoice Nigeria, responsible for Regulatory Strategy and Policy. He was also responsible for Development of Local Programming Policy, and helped conceive and facilitate the launch of the continent’s first satellite movie channel “Africa Magic” on the DStv bouquet. Prior to the launching of Africa Magic, he operated and managed the technical and programming aspects of the Multichoice Nigeria MMDS Cable platform in several cities across Nigeria.

On leaving Multichoice in 2003, Emeka established Questech Media, a media technology and entertainment consulting firm based in Lagos, providing specialised consulting service dedicated to bringing world class expertise to Nigerian and African companies engaged in digital media technology, and media and entertainment sectors.

Emeka has extensive experience in the media and communications fields, and is currently studying law from the External Programme of the University of London. He holds a B.Sc. Mass Communication, and an Advanced Management Programme (AMP) diploma in Media & Entertainment Management from the IESE Business School of New York.

Emeka hails from Enugu State, is married with three children, and widely travelled. He has attended several courses and training programmes in Nigeria and abroad, often times as a speaker on African media, communications technology, and entertainment industry initiatives and future development.

Emeka Mba will be speaking on “Technology and Sports Media” – Digital Media and Sports Content development, delivery and Broadcast technology.

The Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic games

  • Global TV audience of 4.2 billion people
  • Yes, it is a sports event, but no actual sports took place#

Sports is watched globally by all people across different Nations. When a Champions League match is going on, especially the semi-finals, it is watched by everyone and always spoken about on social media.

2011 Renaissance Capital Survey of the Nigerian Middle Class found:

  • 64% of respondents watch live sports or sports programme on TV.
  • 17% of these do so nearly every day.
  • 13% do so at least a week.
  • Only 6% do not watch any sport on TV at all.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the first Athlete to reach 100million like. He 107,856,809 likes on Facebook, nothing less than 4 million views per video. His likes on his page is the population of some Countries and can add four Nations together. 8 million people and more talk about him daily on Facebook. He is a brand on his own and his social media page fetches him income every second. That is how powerful social media is and Mr Mba will be taking us more on ‘Technology and Sport Media.

dr patrick ekeji (1)

Chief Dr Patrick Ekeji, Footballer, Coach, Lecturer, Administrator and Former Director General, National Sports Commission

By the early 1970s, the name Patrick Ekeji, who hails from Aboh, Mbaise, in Imo State, had become domesticated in the national scene due to his performances in football at club and national levels. Born in 1951, Chief Ekeji as he is fondly called, had his early life in Lagos, where he started his secondary education at St. Gregory’s College Obalende between 1963 and 1967 but was forced to relocate to the Eastern Region due to the civil war raging at that time, where he completed his secondary education at Mbaise Secondary School and Holy Ghost College, Owerri.

By 1972, with a clear vision of his future as a sports person, Patrick Ekeji had developed a consolidated view of his life and its attainment strategies. Apart from joining Vasco Da Gama Football Club as a player, he enrolled to study physical education as a degree course at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Patrick Ekeji played football at all levels, national and international, representing Nigeria at the West African, African, Olympic and Commonwealth levels.

Between 1979 and 1985 Chief Ekeji was a lecturer at the National Institute for Sports before going on to coach the National Football team (The Green Eagles) in 1986. From 1993, Chief Ekeji served as Director of Sports, Imo State Sports Council from where he was appointed in 1994 as Director (Sports Development), National Sports Commission. In 1995, Chief Ekeji moved to Department of Planning, Research and Statistics as Director in the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports and in 1996, was appointed into the Board of NFA.

In 2001, Chief Ekeji was re-deployed to head the newly created Department of Facilities and Stadia Development and in 2002, was appointed Director of Sports Development where he introduced and nurtured the Team Nigeria Concept for harnessing public and private sector funding for the training and participation of Nigerian Athletes at international multi-sport events

Between 2005 and 2006, Chief Ekeji served in the National Economic Intelligence Committee (NEIC) and as Co-Chairman Executive Advisory Board of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Research and Economic Development Foundation. In April 2007 Chief Ekeji found himself back at the National Sports Commission, Sports Development Department and in 2009 was appointed Director-General, National Sports Commission from which position he retired meritoriously 2013.

Chief Ekeji in his long and meritorious career as a football player, lecturer and sports administrator, was responsible for so many innovations in sports administration and management, one of which is the creation of TEAM NIGERIA as a funding vehicle for athletes preparation, leading Nigeria to its first overall win at the All Africa Games (8th Edition in Abuja, 2003).

Ekeji also conceptualized and drove the vehicle for the establishment of National Paralympics Committee and introduced the synergy between the National Sports Commission and Military/Para-Military which gave rise to the formation of Military Sport Council.

In 2012 Ekeji was honoured by the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) with the MEDAL OF HONOUR in recognition of his contributions to the development of sports in Nigeria and in Africa and in appreciation for his leadership role as the Chairman of the SCSA Technical Committee on the restructuring of the SCSA.In 2013, he published his memoirs under the title “ODYSSEY OF A GREEN EAGLE, from the pitch to the summit”.

Chief Ekeji would be speaking on “Life after sports” – Developing Capacity for retirement after active sports participation.

Many Ex-Internationals who represented this country at different sporting event are often forgotten when they retire. For every Athlete, retirement will come but planning ahead before retirement is key to having a god life after sports. An Ex-International who played for the Super Eagles was at the last workshop during the month of September and he asked a question concerning life after football. His question was answered by the Resource Person who was delivering his presentation, he was later assured by the programme director Ms Nkechi Obi that his question is a topic which will be addressed by a Resource Person in the forthcoming workshop.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop, to be part of the workshop, send us a mail: [email protected].

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