PREMIUM TIMES journalist shines at African journalism awards

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For his report on “How Nigerians are paying deadly price for Europe’s dirty fuel,” Mr Akinpelu was honoured at the prize-giving ceremony in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

, was on Saturday honoured at the Norbert Zongo African Prize for Investigative Journalism award.

The winning entry looks deep into Nigeria’s several promises to ensure its fuel contains low sulphur, even as its petrol and kerosene have sulphur over 20 times what they should be.pollution-related causesMr Akinpelu, a graduate of statistics from the University of Ibadan, is a fellow of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism, PTCIJ’s Natural Resource and Extractives Programme on climate reporting.

Organisers had earlier shortlisted five finalists in the online category. Those shortlisted were from newsrooms across four African countries, two from Nigeria and one each from Niger, Cameroon and Tanzania. Top prizes were also presented to winners in the radio, television and print medium categories, with an overall winner of the Segbor D’Or prize coming from the print media – Gaston Sawadogo from Burkina Faso.

 

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