Six winners have emerged for the Journalism Fellowship for Investigative Reporting on Trans Fat including AIT’s Nkoli Omhoudu.
The other winners for the programme organised by the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA are Temitope Bademosi of TVC, Sunday Elom of Orient Daily Newspaper, and Dare Akogun of Sobi FM. The rest include Felicia Dairo of Premium Times and Adesola Ikulajolu who is a freelancer.
The six winners will form the second cohort of the fellowship which begins in April with a virtual orientation on Tuesday.
According to CAPPA Executive Director, Akinbode Oluwafemi, the purpose of the fellowship is to stimulate conversations and deep dive into key issues relating to trans-fat consumption, elimination, and the health of Nigerians.
The fellowship will also equip the journalists with the necessary skills and access to information to aid their reporting on issues concerning trans fatty acids. They will be receiving training on researching and finding resources for an investigative report.
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.
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As part of the fellowship, the journalists will produce and publish indepth pieces on trans fat around any of trans-fat content in food, trans-fat and wellbeing, industry players, food labelling and regulation and distinguishing trans-fat induced 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 Organisation’s recommended standards for countries to follow.
The fellowship supported by the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, GHAI, is also geared towards improving the public’s awareness of trans fat and global best practices.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
