TV3’s Nina Abena Antwi-Kusi has been adjudged the second runner up in a special UN award for promoting the Sustainable Development Goals through her story on education.

Nina faced strong competition from four other journalist who had been shortlisted for the award. The ceremony came off on Monday October 24 in Accra where all the contestants gathered for the event.

Nina for her prize got GHC 2,000, a plaque and certificate of participation and a citation. Umaru Sanda Amadu of Accra based Citi Fm was the first runner up. He went away with GHC 3,000 plus a plaque and certificate of participation and a citation.

A journalist from Radio Peace in Winneba in the Central Region, Abdul Hameed Amponsah was the overall winner. He got GHC 6000, a plaque, a certificate of participation and a citation.

The top three winners will be inducted into MFWA’s prestigious Journalism for Change (J4C) Network.

Members of the network will be offered regular training opportunities both locally and internationally to enhance their capacity to influence positive changes in society through journalism.

Media foundation for West Africa indicated the award will be an annual thing as a way of monitoring government’s commitment to meeting the SDGs.

Nina and the others were shortlisted from dozens of entries from Ghanaian journalists who were trained and equipped to support the effective implementation of the UN SDGs through rich and quality reportage of issues regarding the goals.

Nina’s story, which was broadcasted on TV3 and published on 3news.com on October 5, 2016, centered on the state of education at Osono-Dompe Basic School as the world observed Teachers’ Day.

It was titled “One teacher, five classes at Osono-Dompe Basic Sch”

The only school at Osono-Dompe, a small farming community in the Ga West municipality in the Greater Accra Region, has only one teacher manning the entire kindergarten as well as primary one and two.

Pupils in KG department of the Osono-Dompe Methodist Basic School share one classroom while those in classes one and two are crammed in one classroom, a situation that suggests the pupils may never get the opportunity to go beyond class two.

TV3’s Nina Abena Antwi-Kusi visited the school on the occasion of World Teachers Day to bring the situation of the school to light.

By Martin Asiedu-Dartey|3news.com|Ghana
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