Fostering Collaboration: Moniepoint Hosts PJAN Lagos Chapter Executives
PJAN Lagos Chapter seeks strategic partnership with Moniepoint to strengthen visual storytelling, promote financial inclusion and build capacity among professional photojournalists.
LAGOS, Nigeria: The executive members of the Photojournalists Association of Nigeria (PJAN), Lagos Chapter, led by its Chairman, Comrade Bolaji Olasunkanmi, paid a courtesy visit to the head office of Moniepoint Inc. in Lagos on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, to explore areas of collaboration between the financial technology company and the association.
The delegation was received by Moniepoint’s Public and Media Relations Lead, Mr Bemigho Awala, who described the visit as the first of its kind by a media association as a corporate body.
Speaking during the meeting, Olasunkanmi described the visit as strategic, presenting PJAN’s vision and partnership roadmap while advocating a mutually beneficial working relationship with the financial institution.
He commended Moniepoint for its support for individual photojournalists but emphasised the importance of engaging PJAN as the umbrella body representing practising photojournalists across Nigeria.
According to him, an institutional partnership would provide Moniepoint with greater visibility, credible documentation of its impact stories and enhanced public trust through PJAN’s professional image bank and nationwide network.
He noted that PJAN’s reach across print, online and broadcast media platforms positions the association to support brands such as Moniepoint in communicating their impact and showcasing initiatives that drive economic and social development.
Among the proposed areas of collaboration are official coverage of Moniepoint’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial inclusion programmes, capacity-building initiatives for PJAN members on fintech reporting and the business of photography, as well as joint visual campaigns to promote girl-child literacy.
The PJAN chairman also solicited the company’s support for the association’s forthcoming End-of-Year National Discourse, scheduled for December.
Responding, Awala welcomed the initiative and highlighted Moniepoint’s mission to create financial happiness for everyone by empowering small businesses. He noted that the company has a presence in every local government area (LGA) in Nigeria.
He described Moniepoint as a Nigerian-owned company built to serve the Nigerian market, while also catering to customers in the diaspora, adding that Nigeria remains its largest market.
Awala expressed the company’s openness to exploring sustainable collaboration with PJAN, stressing the importance of visual storytelling in communicating the impact of financial inclusion and demonstrating how financial services affect businesses and communities.
The meeting ended on a positive note, with Olasunkanmi describing the engagement as fruitful and expressing optimism about future collaboration between both organisations.
The visit forms part of PJAN Lagos Chapter’s ongoing stakeholder engagement efforts aimed at building strategic partnerships that promote members’ welfare, strengthen professional development and advance the practice of photojournalism in Nigeria.
Other members of the PJAN executive present at the meeting were the Vice Chairman, Mr. Paul Timothy; Secretary, Major Kazeem Bakenne; and Financial Secretary, Mr. Michael Otogo.
