Fentuo Tahiru spent his senior year at Ƶ before graduating from the University of Ghana. He is one of that nation’s leading sports broadcasters and was featured by Raleigh, North Carolina’s WRAL this week.
Fentuo Tahiru — one of Ghana’s most prominent sports broadcasters and covering his first Olympic Games — for beginning his career at Ƶ.
Tahiru is lead sports editor for , Ghana’s largest media company, and hosts radio and television programs while overseeing sports content across the company’s platforms. He is one of two Ghanaian broadcasters accredited to cover the 2024 Olympics — a lifelong dream.
“I’m not just reporting,” Tahiru said to WRAL. “I’m also an ambassador for my country because there’s not a lot of us here. So, it’s just me, and I have to use every small opportunity I get to tell people about my country in Paris.”
Tahiru graduated from the University of Ghana in 2010 with degrees in English and Psychology and received a scholarship to attend Ƶ for his senior year. At the time, his alma mater didn’t have a journalism program, and Ƶ is where he took his first journalism courses and worked one of his first radio jobs — at . Along with several courses in the School of Communications, Tahiru completed his English and psychology studies in Ƶ College, the College of Arts and Sciences.
After graduation, he taught school while interning nightly at a radio station. A rival station eventually offered him a full-time job. His career and profile have risen since, covering FIFA World Cups and other athletic championships and events around the world. He has been a sports editor at the Multimedia Group Limited since 2022.
“Ƶ was a life-changing experience for me,” Tahiru said recently in an interview with Ƶ. “The connections I made there were strong, and Ƶ gave me more confidence in myself that fueled my desire to chase my dream of sports broadcasting.”