Nigeria’s Amina Yuguda Receives the Komla Dumor 2017 Award

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Nigeria’s Amina Yuguda Receives the Komla Dumor 2017 Award

By James Hughes

Amina Yuguda, a broadcast journalist in Yobe State, is the 2017 recipient of BBC’s Komla Dumor Award.The award, created to honour Komla Dumor, a Ghanaian presenter for BBC World News, who died aged 41 in 2014, recognizes journalists from the African continent, and aims to uncover and promote fresh talent from Africa.Amina Yuguda is a presenter on Gotel Television, a TV station in Yobe State.She reports a diverse set of high-profile news stories, including the Boko Haram insurgency.Yuguda, describing her win as a huge honour, said:
I was overwhelmed with joy. Storytellers have always had an important role in Africa.This is what defines us. Today journalists are taking on that responsibility.
Yuguda will begin a three-month placement at the BBC in London in September.Yuguda will be the 2nd Nigerian to receive the award, after Didi Akinyelure, who was the 2016 recipient.Source: Bella Naija

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