NMG reporter bags top continental award, weeks after winning country edition
Nation Media Group Reporter Leopold Obi.
Dennis Onsongo
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Article Author: NMG reporter bags top continental award, weeks after winning country edition
Media Source: Daily Nation (Kenya)
Date: 6 December 2020
The Nation Media Group (NMG) reporter, Leopold Obi, is the overall continental winner of the 2020 Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology Africa Media Awards. The science, agriculture and environment reporter also won the print and online category awards. In an event held virtually from Nairobi on 3 December, Mr Obi, who on 13…
The Nation Media Group (NMG) reporter, Leopold Obi, is the overall continental winner of the 2020 Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology Africa Media Awards. The science, agriculture and environment reporter also won the print and online category awards. In an event held virtually from Nairobi on 3 December, Mr Obi, who on 13 November also won the Kenyan edition of the same awards, was distinguished for his stories: Kenya closer to giving long-awaited GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) cotton a green light, After Bt (transgenic cotton) node Kenya sets sights on biotech food crops and How Bt cotton could tighten Kenya’s grip on lucrative US market published in the Business Daily. Mr Obi thanked the editors and NMG for the opportunity to work at the media house, indicating that this has always been his dream.