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Nigerian editor wins CNN award
17/07/2006 14:13 - (SA)
Lagos - A Nigerian editor has won this year's CNN/Multichoice African journalist of the year award, say reports.
Shola Oshunkeye, general editor of the independent Daily Sun newspaper, was named the 11th winner of the award on Saturday night in the Mozambican capital, Maputo.
The 50-year-old editor emerged winner with a piece - "Niger's graveyard of the living" - he wrote in August 2005 about starvation and drought in this country while working with the Nigerian weekly Tell.
- AFP
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