Ikenna Emewu, Editor Nation’s Capital of The Sun, has been nominated as the Nigerian candidate for the 2016 Public Diplomacy Association Fellowship {CP- DAF}.
The international fellowship aimed to bond Africa/China media relationship will commence at the end of this month till December in Beijing, China.
Emewu according to the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria was selected from among other journalists based on his work and brief.
Managing Director of The Sun Publishing Limited, Mr. Eric Osagie, described the fellowship as a good development and a sign of high recognition by readers, including the outer world, have for newspapers.
Osagie pledged the management’s support for Emewu as he has been appointed as The Sun Bureau Chief in Beijing for the period of the programme in China.
The fellowship was formally initiated in 2014 after the fifth Ministerial Conference of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation aimed at promoting media exchange and strengthening friendly cooperation between China and Africa.
The fellowship which takes 10 editors from African countries, with not more than one from a country holds as partnership between the CPDA and the Renmin University of China.
Emewu joined The Sun Newspaper in May 2003 as Assistant News Editor.
A First Class graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Emewu also has a Masters degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, a Fellow of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) of the Kookmin University, Seoul and is a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE)
He is the first in Nigerian print media to be nominated for the CPDA Fellowship.
