Nigeria's Raheem Adedoyin was on Thursday elected alongside 15 others to the governing board of the 70-year-old International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna. Adedoyin, chairman of the editorial board of The Herald newspapers and Secretary of of the IPI Nigeria chapter, was elected unopposed to the board of the prestigious body that focuses exclusively on press freedom and welfare of journalists across the world.Adedoyin succeeds the late Wada Maida, the publisher of People's Daily. Maida had succeeded Kabir Yusuf, the publisher of Daily Trust. The election was held at the 70th General Assembly of IPI holding in Austria, with at least 200 member journalists, some of whom virtually tuned in to the event worldwide.Other newly elected IPI board members are Walid Batrawi (Palestine); John Daniszewski (USA); Marton Gergely (Hungary); Emre Kizilkaya (Turkey); Elizaveta Osetinskaya (Russia); Etaf Roudan (Jordan); Hiroki Sugita (Japan); Jussi Tuulensuu (Finland); and Sami Zeidan (Qatar).
Zaffar Abbas (Pakistan) was re-elected to the board alongside Mahfuz Anam (Bangladesh); Monika Eigenaperger (Austria); David Jordan (UK); Riyad Mathew (India); and Khadija Patel (South Africa).
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