Salamatu Ibrahim
Media Personality and Socialprenuer in Abuja, Nigeria
Salamatu Ibrahim is a Social and Media Entrepreneur with over 13 years of Media experience working in Broadcast Journalism. She holds a first degree in Mass Communication from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and is an Associate member of the Nigerian Union of Journalist as well as the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators.
In 2007, She joined Daar Communications Plc as a Water Resources and Environment Correspondent where she was responsible for covering and presenting all stories concerning the Environment within and outside Nigeria.
As a brilliant journalist, Salamatu has travelled across continents to deliver on her news sourcing, gathering and reporting skills. In 2009, she alongside other journalists, she covered the Conference of Party 15 (COP 15) of the United Nations Frame work Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen Denmark and presented the event on TV; in June, 2010, she was on a team of Journalists to Bamako Mali to cover and report on the all African Environment Ministers Meeting and in August 2010, she was among five Nigerian Journalists selected by Digitest Nigeria to Egypt to cover and report an exchange program between children in Nigeria and Egypt on green technology focused on “Going Green Digitally”. She was the only Nigerian Journalist selected by the British council to cover the interfaith meeting of religious leaders from Nigeria and the UK held in the United Kingdom in December, 2010 and in August, 2012, she covered and attended the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Salamatu joined the European Union Election Observation Mission 2011 in March 2010 by privilege of her organization – AIT - as a Press Officer Assistant.
She resumed work with AIT in July 2011, retained her position as an Environment and Water Resources Correspondent and became one of the anchors for the breakfast show ‘KaKaaki the African Voice’ every weekday where she engages with the producers on key issues across the country and globally.
In 2003, Salamatu won the Global Ambassador for Peace Award and in 2015, she was a Nominee for the Best TV News Reporter at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards.