Jefferson Sackey is Back On TV with JS-International Assignment
After going off air for almost six weeks for the X'mas and New Year celebrations, Jefferson Sackey's International Assignment, one of the finest current affairs programme of our time makes a comeback on Tuesday.
The good news is that the programme which used to be telecast on Sundays at 4pm will now be broadcast at prime time on Tuesdays at 9:00pm on TV Africa, Skyy Digital, ABC TV in Sierra Leone, Renaissance TV in Liberia and the many affiliate networks globally.
Live from the cold winters of North America, Jefferson will this Tuesday revisit the story of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab.
In what American officials are calling "an attempted act of terrorism," Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man with ties to Al-Qaeda, allegedly tried to bring down a plane on Christmas day using an improvised explosive device strapped to his leg. What damage has that incident caused? And who is Anwar Al Awlaki? Could he be the next face of terrorism? JS-IA will find answers to these questions.
JS-International Assignment is a first-class news documentary production going beyond the headlines to tell stories in-depth and from many points of view so you can make up your own mind about the news that affects you. The show's hallmark is its "Reaching the Unreachable" franchise - demanding answers and finding the truth.
Backed by the global resources of C-TV, Jefferson Sackey's file is Central at looking at world events - covering not only the day's top stories, but the fascinating, the unexpected and the under reported.
As a West African freelance journalist, Jefferson Kwamina Sackey has been a globetrotting reporter for almost six years, covering armed conflicts, political upheavals and natural disasters in hot spots around the world. All that fieldwork served as a warm-up for 2005, an extra ordinary year that took him to the front lines in post conflict, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Rwanda, forever changing his view of his life, his career and how it all fits together.
He told ghanacelebrities.com that new ideas and segments have been added to the thirty minute programme; Children In Peril, Travel Journalism and Rights Media.