Nigeria’s leading online investigative newspaper, PREMIUM TIMES, has created a Development Desk.
The newspaper’s Managing Editor, Idris Akinbajo, said the desk will focus on issues of human development including health and education.
Akinbajo stated that former deputy head of investigations Mojeed Alabi will head the new desk.
Alabi holds a BA in English from Obafemi Awolowo University and Masters in Diplomacy and Strategic Studies (MDSS), from UNILAG.
He joined the defunct National Mirror Newspapers in 2010 and served as both education correspondent and campus page editor.
He later moved to New Telegraph Newspaper in 2014 as a correspondent before joining PREMIUM TIMES as deputy head of investigations.
The multiple award-winning journalist won the education category of the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA) in 2012 and 2017. He won Human Rights Reporter of the Year of the same award in 2018.
Mr Alabi also won the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (Print Category) 2016 and 2018.
He is a recipient of the Golden Pen Report of the Year 2017 and 2018.
He was a fellow of the World Health Organization’s Road Safety Fellowship at the Road Safety Conference in Brazil in 2015 and also participated in the 2017 Global Investigative Journalism Conference at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
