Journalist Didi Akinyelure has won the BBC World Service News Komla Dumor Award
A Nigerian journalist has won the
second BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Didi Akinyelure is a prime-time news
anchor in Nigeria and presents business news for CNBC, which broadcasts across
the continent.
She will start a three-month
placement at the BBC in London in September. The award was established to
honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41
in 2014.
Breakthru Nigeria: Telling our success story.
Ms Akinyelure said Mr Dumor was
someone she admired. “He told the African story with so much passion for the
continent, giving a balanced view and inspiring so many.” One of the judges who
selected Ms Akinyelure, BBC Africa’s Josephine Hazeley, said Ms Akinyelure
particularly excelled in telling business stories, “which was an area Komla was
also passionate about”.
The first Komla Dumor Award was won
by Ugandan news anchor Nancy Kacungira.
She is a prime-time news anchor in
Nigeria and presents business news for CNBC, which broadcasts across the
continent.
She tells the BBC, where she will
start a three-month placement in September, about her career and what winning
the award means to her.
Story First Appeared on BBC World
News
Posted By Edino Justice, NTA
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