Slain Channels reporter wins CNN posthumous award

The Cable News Network (CNN) on Sunday recognized the contributions of murdered Channels Television’s reporter, Enenche Akogwu and Zakariya Isa of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) to journalism in Africa.

Late Enenche Akogwu

 

Both journalists died while covering the violence in Northern Nigeria and were both this year’s recipients of the Free Press Africa Award, for their work in Nigeria.
Zakariya, a cameraman for the NTA, was killed in October 2011, and Enenche, a news reporter with Channels Television, was shot and killed, having covered the Kano bomb blast in January this year.
Tom Mboya and Evanson Nyaga, from Kenya, were awarded the top prize at this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Awards Ceremony.