Kabir Adejumo of Premium Times, #Nigeria and two other journalists have been named as the finalists for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalists Award 2020.
The others are Martín Leandro Camacho from #Peru and Anna Myroniuk from #Ukraine
They were selected from an earlier shortlist of 12 out of the initial 200 entries from 55 countries.
” In a year we will never forget, it’s unsurprising that our three Young Journalist Award finalists all have a coronavirus story to tell.,” Thomson Foundation stated in the announcement of the finalists
” On board an unseaworthy boat, crowded with large groups of desperate passengers, investigative reporter, Kabir Adejumo, exposes the unscrupulous border guards receiving bribes to help people cross between Nigeria and Benin Republic, despite border closures to contain the spread of the virus.,”
