New Editor-In-Chief for NAN

Mr Ephraims Sheyin has been appointed as the  Editor-in-Chief of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

A graduate of Standford University and Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria, Sheyin started his journalism career on Dec. 11, 1989, as a Reporter with NAN.

He moved through the ranks as Correspondent, Senior Correspondent, Principal Correspondent, Assistant Chief Correspondent, Chief Correspondent, Assistant EIC, Deputy EIC, and was named EIC March 30, 2020.

Born in Ikulu, Kaduna State in 1965, Sheyin is a graduate of Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria and has also attended training programmes at the International Institute of Journalism, Berlin, Germany Stanford University, California, USA and Oxford University.

In 1996, he won one of the two slots for Africa and developing countries in the JS Knight Fellowship from a pool of over 500 applicants.