{"id":92634,"date":"2015-02-19T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=92634"},"modified":"2015-02-19T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:55:07","slug":"tedx-accra-speaker-meet-bernardino-koku-avle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/02\/tedx-accra-speaker-meet-bernardino-koku-avle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tedx Accra Speaker: Meet Bernardino Koku Avle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernardino Koku Avle is a Director of News Programming at Citi FM, he oversees a team of young\u00a0hardworking news professionals producing and covering news for Ghanaian radio and online\u00a0audiences. He combine this role with hosting the Citi Breakfast Show, an exciting and probing daily\u00a0talk show that addresses Socio-economic issues in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His show was adjudged the Interactive\/Talk Show of the year at the BBC\u2019s Africa Radio Awards in\u00a02007, in Nairobi Kenya and Radio Program of the year 2013 by the Chartered Institute of Marketing\u00a0Ghana (CIMG).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He has been in broadcasting for close to 15 years and started as a volunteer broadcast journalist at\u00a0the University of Ghana\u2019s Radio Univers in the year 2000.\u00a0He graduated with a first class in Economics from the University of Ghana and has an MBA from the\u00a0Warwick Business School in the UK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He is also an Edward R Murrow Fellow of Journalism and a Chevening Scholar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Why you should listen to his talk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Many people see morning radio shows in Ghana as noisy platforms for political bickering and score\u00a0settling, but having hosted the Citi Breakfast Show for a decade, I have come to understand the\u00a0latent power of Radio for creating a better society, by demanding more accountable leadership and\u00a0more responsible citizenship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;My ideas about the power of conversations and questions will show you simple ways in which\u00a0asking the right questions- relentlessly would lead to positive change, not only in society or for\u00a0hearers, but also for you, the questioner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Quote from Bernardino: Our willingness to ask the right questions is often more important than our\u00a0ability to answer them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernardino on Social Media:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FACEBOOK: Bernard Avle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Twitter: @benkoku<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Email: benkoku@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tedx Accra is schduled for the 11th of April, 2015 at the National Theather, Accra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kindly Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxaccra.org\/\">www.tedxaccra.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardino Koku Avle is a Director of News Programming at Citi FM, he oversees a team of young\u00a0hardworking news professionals producing and covering news for Ghanaian radio and online\u00a0audiences. 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