Prominent media executives across Nigeria are expected to converge on Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on May 5 and 6, 2025, for the third edition of the Nigerian Media Leaders’ Summit, a high-level gathering designed to explore how media owners and executives can strengthen their engagement with audiences and communities while harnessing emerging opportunities in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

The summit, organised by The Journalism Clinic, will host media leaders, including newspaper publishers, editors-in-chief, TV and radio chief executives, general managers, directors of programmes, and editors.

In a statement, Founder and Director of The Journalism Clinic, Taiwo Obe, said the gathering would seek to “charge up the power to their connections”— a metaphor for transforming relationships with readers, listeners, and viewers into sustainable value.

“How to turn the connections with their audiences and communities into gold in the AI age will be what will engage media leaders at the summit,” said Obe.

Meanwhile, the summit is being supported through sponsorships and partnerships from a broad coalition of public and private sector organisations, including the Nigeria LNG (NLNG), Lagos and Ogun state governments, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian Railway Corporation, Fidelity Bank, and Polaris Bank.

Also, prominent media organisations have signed on as partners. Besides the enriching intellectual engagements, Obe stated, “a major outcome of last year’s edition was the formation, based on one of the speakers’ presentations titled Where’s The Money, of the Innovative Media Partners Cooperative Multi-purpose Society (IMPCMS).”

The speakers include Frank Aigbogun, Publisher of Business Day; Joseph Adeyeye, CEO/Editor-in-Chief of Punch Newspapers; Toun OkewaleSonaiya, CEO of WFM 91.7FM, Nigeria’s only radio station dedicated to women; Betty DibiahAkeredolu-Ale, CEO of Branama TV, Nigeria’s first television channel focused on children; and MusikiluMojeed, Chief Operating Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times.

Tolu Ogunlesi, a former presidential aide and media strategist, will moderate the forum.

“It is an occasion for the leaders to square up to their markets for enduring prosperity, particularly in the age of artificial intelligence,” Obe stressed.