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Chido Onumah, coordinator of African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), has been elected as a trustee of Whistleblowing International Network (WIN).

WIN, a Scotland-based civil society organisation, is an international body established to connect and strengthen CSOs that defend and support whistleblowers.

The organisation, in its first annual general meeting, on October 14, elected Onumah as a trustee.

Welcoming Onumah, Anna Myers, WIN’s executive director, said the organisation is delighted to have the journalist on board.

“We are delighted to have Chido Onumah join us as a Trustee of WIN. Perspectives from Europe and North America are well-represented on our Board and we are keen to hear more from our whistleblowing communities based elsewhere, including from Africa,” she said.

“Chido is so well-respected and brings such a wealth of experience, we are truly honoured to have greater access to him as a WIN Trustee.”

On his part, Onumah appreciated the board and WIN membership for appointing him as a trustee.

Onumah is a journalist, activist and the author of ‘We Are All Biafrans’. He has also edited several books, the latest of which is Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices.

The organisation’s annual general meeting also saw the appointment of Vladimir Radomirovic, editor-in-chief of Pistaljka, an online investigative journalism platform in Serbia, as the chair of the trustees.

Radomirovic is to succeed John Devitt, who remains on the board as a trustee and continues as the vice-chair of the board.