The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has announced the winners of its Journalism Fellowship for Investigative Reporting on Trans Fat.
There are six winners. They are Temitope Bademosi (TVC), Sunday Elom (Orient Daily Newspaper), Dare Akogun (Sobi FM), Felicia Dairo (Premium Times), Nkoli Omhoudu (AIT), and Adesola Ikulajolu (Independent Journalist).
The inaugural Fellowship in 2020 was won by seven journalists including, Vanguardās Agbonkhese Oboh. Others were Andrew Mshelia (Nagarta Radio), Abenmire Adi (HitFM/Cross River Watch), Chukuwumah Muanya (The Guardian), Temitayo Ayetoto (BusinessDay), Frank Ajufo (Vision FM) and Amos Abba (ICIR).
Some of the past winners have gone ahead to win international laurels with the stories generated with their entries.
This second cohort of the Trans Fat Fellowship will begin on April 12th with a virtual orientation.
The Executive Director of CAPPA, Mr Ā Akinbode Oluwafemi, said the purpose of the Fellowship was to stimulate conversations and bring to fore key issues relating to trans-fat consumption, elimination, and the health of Nigerians.
He added that the Fellowship would also equip the journalists with the necessary skills and access to information to aid their reporting on issues concerning trans fatty acids. They would also benefit from training on research and finding resources for investigative reports.
The fellows were judged based on the quality of the presentation of their pitches, the ingenuity of their ideas and the relevance of their pitches to the campaign objectives.
As part of the Fellowship, the journalists are to produce and publish in-depth reports on trans-fat in food, and wellbeing, industry players, food labelling and regulation and distinguishing trans-fat enhancing cardiovascular diseases and implications of the treatment of such in Nigeria.
CAPPA, through the Fellowship aims to build the capacity of the Nigerian media to report on trans fat use, health risk and its regulation from an informed perspective in line with the World Health Organisationās recommended standards for countries to follow.
The Fellowship is supported by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI). It is also geared towards improving the publicās awareness of trans fat and global best practices.
