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GNA Reporter Wins Award

Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra)

May 12, 2004
Posted to the web May 12, 2004

A Senior Reporter of the Ghana News Agency, Ms Josephine Naaeke has won “The
Prestigious Development Journalism Award” of the 42nd Development Journalism
Course of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

The award, sponsored bt the Press trust Of India (PTI ) is the most
prestigious among five others, and goes with 2,500 rupees.

Ms. Naaeke won an Indian government scholarship to undertake the course
alongside 20 others from 19 countries including Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, Botswana, Namibia, Madagascar and
Seychelles.

The others were from Bangladesh, Armenia, Nepal, Vietnam, Kyrgystan,
Mongolia, Guatemala and Guyana.

The requirements for the award included academic excellence, affability and
ability to create mutual interaction among the participants.

Ms Naaeke arrived back home on Saturday.