A journalist from north-eastern Nigeria has won the 3rd BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.
Amina Yuguda is a tidings presenter on local network Gotel Television, where she has reported on high-profile tidings stories, including the Boko Haram insurgency.
She volition showtime a three-month placement at the BBC inwards London inwards September.
The honour was created to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC World News, who died all of a abrupt aged 41 inwards 2014.
Ms Yuguda said her win was a "huge honour”.
"I was overwhelmed amongst joy. Storytellers accept ever had an of import purpose inwards Africa... this is what defines us. Today journalists are taking on that responsibility.”
She impressed the panel amongst her story-telling too her mightiness to pick out complex ideas inwards a agency that resonates amongst a broad audience.
She is excited to function at the BBC, given her agreement of the corporation's behave upon amid pastoralists inwards her hometown, maxim inwards her application:
"With picayune or no formal education, my countrymen tin dismiss concord their ain inwards a multifariousness of topics, including the Trump presidency inwards America, North Korea's defiance, Russia's unusual relations nether Putin, too more.”
BBC World Service Group Director Francesca Unsworth said Ms Yuguda was a worthy winner:
"To observe soul who possesses many of Komla's qualities is something for us to celebrate, too nosotros are really excited well-nigh working amongst Amina.”
Previous winners of the Komla Dumor Award were Ugandan tidings anchor Nancy Kacungira too Nigerian concern journalist Didi Akinyelure.
BBC