Stella Din-Jacob
Broadcaster and multimedia journalist. Newsroom leader. Mentor, trainer and strategic thinker.
Three decades reporting the events that shaped modern Nigeria and the wider region — and building the newsrooms that covered them.
“Failure is not an option. Impossible does not exist.”
7 November 2026
ADC 086, Itoikin: 30 years after
On 7 November 1996, a passenger aircraft crashed at Itoikin, near Ejirin, 34 nautical miles from Lagos. A reporter barely a year into the job followed the story into the dark and came back with an account no one else had.
Thirty years on, Stella Din-Jacob returns to the night that made her.
Career
A lawyer by training with only a brief law practice, she walked into the Channels Television newsroom in 1995 and, within a year, broke the story that made her. She went on to lead newsrooms at Silverbird, Minaj Broadcast International and TVC Communications, where she was Director of News and Editor-in-Chief for seven years, and reported the return to democracy, landmark trials and conflict in West Africa.
- Years in broadcast and multimedia journalism
- 30+Years in broadcast and multimedia journalism
- Women in Journalism Africa’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Journalism in Nigeria, 2023 and 2024
- No. 1Women in Journalism Africa’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Journalism in Nigeria, 2023 and 2024
- Television Station of the Year at TVC, Nigerian Media Merit Awards
- 2×Television Station of the Year at TVC, Nigerian Media Merit Awards
- Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism
- 2022Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism
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Subjects
- Social impact and development
- Security and defence
- The sub-region and continental Africa
- Geopolitics
- Speaking: make an enquiry
- Keynotes, panels and conference sessions.
- Advisory: make an enquiry
- Advice to media organisations and institutions on newsroom leadership, editorial standards and strategy.
- Training: make an enquiry
- Ethical reporting, newsroom leadership, crisis communication and content strategy.
- Media set-up: make an enquiry
- Establishing startup media and multimedia operations.
For speaking, advisory, training and media set-up enquiries.