The Catholic Television of Nigeria (CTV), is set to host the first meeting of African Catholic Television Stations.
The meeting, first of its kind in Africa, is scheduled to hold at the CTV Office, 51 Mabolo Street, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja from 24th June – 2nd July 2023.
The week long meeting cum training session is being sponsored by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), an international organization based in Germany.
Reason for the training is to improve the quality and content of Catholic Television Stations in Africa.
Already, six African countries expected to participate in the training programme.
They include Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, South Sudan, Uganda and Nigeria, specially selected for the pilot program.
The training is aimed at gingering high quality production of programmes and collaboration among sister Catholic televisions in Africa.
It is hoped that during the conference, an association of Catholic television stations in Africa would be formed for the purpose of exchanging programmes and knowledge among Catholic Stations across African continent.
A team of trainers comprising of German Cinematographers and Polish experts would be leading the training course sessions, which are to be attended by 21 persons across the selected African countries.
It would be recalled that last year, eight members of CTV had a major training in Ghana through the ACN partnership.
The Director of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja and Director, Catholic Television, Nigeria, Very Rev. Fr. Patrick Alumuku, disclosed that the training sessions would also be attended by Mr. Mark Riedemann, who will be the leading representative of Aid to the Church in need.
Fr. Alumuku added that the line up of event for the participants would include a courtesy call on the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Grace, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama.
