By Olayiwola Balogun – The publisher & Editor in Chief of African Voice, Britain’s N0.1 African Newspaper, Prince Mike Abiola was on Friday 17 June 2022 honoured as one of the leading figures from the ethnic media industry in the United Kingdom.
The multi-award winning media entrepreneur, Prince Mike Abiola received the Committed Media Professional Award and accolade for his contributions to the development of multicultural media in the UK.
The 2022 Acknowledgement Awards was organized by Mediareach Advertising, UK’s leading integrated Agency at Madhu, The Dilly Hotel Mayfair to celebrate over 25 years of successful working partnership.
In his response, Prince Mike Abiola said, “My appreciation goes to the management and the entire team at Mediareach Advertising for a very successful partnership in the service to our community. The last two years has been a challenging one for the media industry as a whole and the ethnic media in particular. We look forward to further future collaborations.”
The who’s who of ethnic media houses from all across the United Kingdom attended the award ceremony.
Just a couple of weeks earlier, a letter that read thank you for your support during Covid was sent to African Voice Newspaper from the Prime Minister’s Office in Downing Street.
The letter, addressed to Mike Abiola was signed by Conrad Bird, Director, Campaigns & Marketing at Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office Communications:
“As we move to living with COVID-19, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the support that you have provided during the height of the pandemic to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, protecting the NHS and saving lives.
Thanks to partners such as yourselves we have communicated with a wide range of people: provided them with emergency messaging around staying at home, advised them of behaviours to adopt to help keep them and their loved ones safe, and of course mobilised the uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations, helping break the link between infections and hospitalisations.
As our strategy shifts, we hope to continue to work with you on a lighter touch basis and we will keep you appraised of opportunities to align with Covid-19 guidance and communications.
As we recover from Covid-19, we will continue to be grateful for your support, not just on this topic, but also our wider public health programme designed to:
- Support people to take greater ownership
of their own physical and mental health to keep them well for longer.
- Help save lives by encouraging people access
to the NHS in the right place and at the right time for emergency and chronic illnesses including, heart attacks, strokes and cancer.
- Encourage organ, blood and plasma donation.
Your invaluable support to help get essential information out to our communities has helped get us to where we are today, and we look forward to working together again in the future.
Many thanks once again for your support.”
Signed by Conrad Bird, Director, Campaigns & Marketing at Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office Communications.
We wish our publisher & Editor in Chief, Prince Mike Abiola more accolades and greater heights in all his endeavours and contributions to humanity.
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