The MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) 2025 for Nigerian media practitioners/content creators (All expense paid study trip to Johannesburg, South Africa)

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Application Deadline: April 7, 2025.

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 Pan-Atlantic University/MTN Media Innovation Programme. The MTN Media Innovation Programme (MIP) is a 6-week lengthy programme unfold throughout six months for media practitioners within the Nigerian house. The programme will enhance the information and talent base of the contributors and assist them perceive the altering media panorama, and the way to successfully use expertise to create impactful media content material.

The 4th Cohort of the 6-week programme which is absolutely sponsored by MTN Nigeria is slated to start on May 19, by way of October 24, 2025, with twenty (20) Nigerian journalists from completely different media outfits who scale by way of the choice course of.

Cohort-4 of the programme will construct on the successes of the final three Cohorts to additional consolidate its main place as a foremost impactful coaching programme ever endowed for Nigerian journalists. Past Cohorts have proven the capability of the programme to carry a few constructive shift within the careers of the beneficiaries, enabling lots of them to skyrocket to new positions and tasks after the coaching. The MTN MIP-4 will, as ordinary, fire up the spirit of innovation within the contributors to empower the Nigerian media practitioners to be higher at their jobs and to drive improvements that may probably create and enthrone the much-needed sustainability within the business.

The potential of the programme to expose the contributors to learn the way ICT powers the media and the way the media magnifies ICT of their symbiotic relationship, in addition to how the media might be potent weapons for profitable diplomatic engagements is rifer now than earlier than.

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be a media practitioner or content material creator
• Must have a legitimate International Passport
• Must cross a written check and any subsequent interviews
• Must get a written launch from employers to take part within the programme

Benefits

Participants will…

1. Grasp the altering media panorama propelled by ICT, AI and digital media. 
2. Enhance their writing and reporting abilities. 
3. Have a greater understanding of MTN Corporate model and strategic positioning and alignment. 
4. Have a firsthand understanding of MTN Nigeria, its operations, and challenges by way of case research and visits to its Nigerian workplaces in addition to its world Headquarters in South Africa. 
5. Have a better understanding of how the ICT & Telecoms business in Nigeria work and the function of MTN Nigeria within the combine. 
6. Be geared up to reap the benefits of current official means to monetize their abilities in a fast-changing media panorama. 
7. Go on study go to to the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. 
8. Witness how media might be explored for diplomatic progress in Africa. 
9. Stand an opportunity to win N1m on confirmed revolutionary thought or on excellent reportage of the telecoms sector through the interval of the study. 

• At the tip of the coaching, the 20 profitable candidates, who will qualify as Fellows, may have been educated on Nigeria’s expertise sector, the connection between media and expertise and improved content material creation Opportunities.
• They may also be geared up with the abilities to adapt to the altering realities that assure profession and monetary success of their skilled follow.
• Fellows may also have entry to skilled sources and mentorship from PAU’s erudite college.

Every participant will expertise improved information in 4 broad areas:

1. The Telecoms business 
2. Media Innovation 
3. Writing & Reporting 
4. Media Diplomacy 

Programme Structure

• Over 70: Class classes
• 19 Days on campus
• 5 Days off campus
• 2 Days in MTN
• 7 Days in South Africa
• 1 Day in an Innovation Hub
• 1 Day in nature
• 1 Day complete capstone

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Pan-Atlantic University/MTN Media Innovation Programme