By Rahman Taofeeq,
NTA network news Anchor Joy Osiagwu is dead. Osiagwu died in Abuja after a brief illness on friday 8th of November 2024.

Details of her demise is yet to be revealed but posts by friends and colleagues shows the media community is mourning her loss.

Joy Achele Osiagwu is a broadcast journalist and a media consultant with over two decades of full-time practice in the broadcast industry in Nigeria and North America. Joy is a great multitasking broadcaster, News anchor, reporter, producer, and videographer/ film editor. She adds a distinctive flair to her storytelling technique to captivate the listener, viewer or reader.

When Clicknews checked her pages, the last post was on October 13 with her Husband.

Osiagwu covered activities of the Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa Canada and the Nigeria Mission to the United Nations in New York for a decade, including the United Nations rotational Presidency of the Security Council during the tenure of the former Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN Mission, Professor Joy Ogwu in July 2010, October 2011 and August 2015 for the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). Due to her intuitive ability to tell great stories, Joy continued with the coverage of the UN General Assembly sessions and Heads of Government high-level meetings from 2013-2017. Apart from covering the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakech, Morocco in 2018, Joy Osiagwu covered the election process and emergence of the 74th President of the United Nations General Assembly, Professor Tijjani Muhammad Bande in June 2019 at the UN in New York.


Osiagwu’s post about the death of her senior colleague in December 2023

Watch NTA’s report on her death

Osiagwu obtained a Masters in Business Administration and Media Leadership from the University of Cumbria in the United Kingdom. She also has a post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Performing Arts from the Columbia Academy, Vancouver British Columbia Canada. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama, majoring in Theatre for Development