The editor of African Newspage, Adam Alqali, on Saturday emerged winner of the 2018 West Africa Media Awards’ prize for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reporting, at an event held at the Swiss Spirit Alisa Hotel in Accra, Ghana.
Now the West African sub-region’s most prestigious media awards, the West Africa Media Awards is an initiative of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) focused on promoting media excellence in the sub-region by honouring West African journalists “who have produced compelling works which have had significant impact on society”.
Alqali was one of 18 finalists across 7 out of 14 categories of the competition which this year received over 600 entries from across 12 countries of West Africa, Francophone and Anglophone.
His shortlisted entry titled: “Out of school children: Nigeria’s ticking time-bomb” according to a citation read at the event was “about SDG4 – it tells the untold stories of Nigeria’s over 10.5 million out-of-school children and the looming socioeconomic and security consequences represented by the huge numbers of out-of-school children to Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria.”
An award-winning development journalist who was awarded the 2017 Travel Fellowship of the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists held at San Francisco, United States, Alqali last September emerged finalist for the 2018 media awards of the for the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB) held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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