9news Nigeria Publisher Obinna Ejianya who was recently honoured as Anambra Media Person of the Year has on Thursday, March 21, 2024, emerged as the National Vice-President of IPAN (Igbos For Progressive And United Nationhood).
The announcement of Mr Obinna Ejianya’s emergence as the IPAN’s Vice President was contained in a press letter signed by the organization’s Secretary/Media Head, comrade Ozuah Strukture Nnamdi, and made available to the press on Thursday.
Obinna Ejianya, 9News Nigeria Publisher
Speaking on the new development, Comrade Lawrence Onuzulike, the National President of IPAN, hailed Obinna Ejianya as a lover of peace and progress. He commended the media guru for his tireless efforts towards advancing the progress of Igbo people in Nigeria and for his fights for a more peaceful nation.
Ejianya who is also the CEO of Nine Communications Nigeria Limited is an IT expert, a businessman of international repute and a philanthropist.
Obinna Ejianya, who lives in Australia, hails from Mgbakwu town in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra state where he received his early education. He completed his High School at the Community Secondary School, Mgbakwu, formerly known as Mgbakwu Boys High School.
He later travelled overseas to Singapore where he graduated in Information Technology, in 1994. Mr. Obinna Ejianya was the CEO of Sole Business Machines (SBM), one of the suppliers and distributors of IBM typewriters and other business machines. SBM was one of Nigeria’s first companies to sell and distribute Personal Computers (PCs) in the early 90s.
His news outfit – 9News Nigeria – a media brand owned by Nine Communications Nigeria Limited, was founded in 2016 with the mission to maintain standards and balance news broadcast and publishing in Nigeria with what is obtainable in the West. Keeping the masses adequately and rightly informed and keeping the politicians and leaders in public view and proper check.
Since its formation in 2016, 9News Nigeria has successfully established News Bureaus in major states and 6 geopolitical zones in Nigeria including Anambra, Delta, Edo, Osun, Kwara, Lagos, Rivers, Abuja, South-East, South-South, South-West, North-Central and the FCT.
9News Nigeria currently has over 50 news editors and reporters across the country and internationally.
