By Rebecca Ampah
GBC’s Maltiti Sayida Sadick has been awarded Most Promising Media Personality of the Year 2025 by the Northern Excellence Awards (NExA) at its 7th edition in Tamale. She was awarded for highlighting underreported stories from Northern Ghana that influenced change.
She was honored alongside members of Ghana’s Legislature who are impacting Northern Ghana through youth-led initiatives.
Maltiti, who has reported on social justice stories like the Lamashegu shooting incident in 2022, which left one dead and one critically injured, used GTV’s Breakfast Show to sue the Ghana Police Service and got the police to cover the full payment of the victim’s facial repair surgery, as well as highlighting stories on youth-led initiatives like a sanitary pad manufacturing company that works with young girls from the North to make eco-friendly sanitary pads.
She has reported on the plight of kayayei and launched campaigns on language inclusion, citing communication gaps in the alienation of languages from Northern Ghana not captured in critical communication platforms.
Maltiti, in 2024, launched her second social enterprise, Let’s Go North, and through that trained over 300 young students, media personnel, and bloggers at UDS Tamale on digital skills, marketing, and content monetization.
Her NGO, Maltiti Care International, has provided access to free repair fistula surgeries for close to 100 women in Northern Ghana. She was selected as a Mandela Washington Fellow in 2021 due to her work in advocacy on the plight of women with fistula. Maltiti, who started her journalism career officially at GBC Radio Savannah where she did her national service, has within the last 6 years risen to become the co-host of GTV Breakfast as one of Ghana’s first hijab-wearing TV presenters on Ghana’s national television.
