Seth Kwame Boateng, a Journalist with Accra-based radio station, JOY FM, has won the Journalist of the Year Award at this year’s Ghana Journalist Awards.
Boateng’s documentary ‘Locked and Forgotten’ won him the award. He also sciopped three others on the night.
Present at Saturday’s ceremony was President John Dramani Mahama.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS
Seth J. Bokpe – GJA Komla Dumor Most Promising Young Journalist Award
Seth Kwame Boateng (Joy FM) Features on Radio – (Bloody land)
Seth Kwame Boateng – Features on Television (I shake I walk)
Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) – (Energy self-sufficiency; village of Dadekokpe)
Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) – Agriculture – (Watermelon not just water and sugar)
Joseph Opoku Gakpo (Joy FM) – Poverty alleviation (Millennium)
Abdul Moomen (GTV) – Human rights – (Killing the spirit of children)
Wendy Laryea (TV3) – Education – (The waiting is over)
Wendy Laryea (TV3) – Digital journalism – (From floor to desk)
Rebecca Awuah (GBC) – Arts and Tourism
Elvis Darko (Finder) – Courts and crime (One woman, two husbands)
Mabel Aku Baneseh (Daily Graphic) – Anti-corruption – (Rot at National Service Scheme)
Daniel Nanor (Chronicle) – Environment – (Galamsey)
Kwetey Nartey(Joy FM) – Investigative Reporting – (Red light beats)
Kwetey Nartey (Joy FM) – Narcotics – (Narcotic school boys)
Jamila Akweley (Daily Guide) Liquid gold best food ever
Zadok K. Gyesi (Daily Graphic) Small and Medium Enterprise (Unnoticed gold mining)
Samuel Adadi Akapule (GNA)
Della Rusell Ocloo (Daily Graphic) – Sanitation – (Ongoing battle with Zinginshor)
David Andoh (Myjoyonline) – Photography – (Two motorbikes in head-on collision)
Kafui Kaney (GNA) – Rural reporting; Child labour – (Kids abandon school)
Alberto Mario Noretti (Ghanaian Times) – Rural reporting – (Dabi dabi where no one dies)
Doreen Hammond (Daily Graphic) – Education (print) – (The state of libraries)
Samuel Kyei Boateng (Daily Graphic) News (print)
Ayele Ayittey ( TV Africa) – Disability ( Who leans sign language)
Nii A. Klu (GBC Obonu) Best Ga programme
Nana Konadu Agyemang ( Taxis as hearse)
Moses Dotse Aklorbortu (Daily Graphic) -Oil and gas (Oil rigs beg for decommissioning)
Felix Klutse ( Business Day) – Indigenous banks
Benedict Owusu (Joy FM) – Sports (Age cheating)
Rebecca Ekpe (GBC ) Local governance
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
