Nigerian editor wins CNN award

Lagos - A Nigerian editor has won this year's CNN/Multichoice African journalist of the year award, his newspaper said on Monday.

Shola Oshunkeye, general editor of the independent Daily Sun newspaper, was named the 11th winner of the award on Saturday night in the Mozambican capital Maputo.

The 50-year-old editor emerged the winner with a piece - Niger's graveyard of the living - he wrote in August 2005 about starvation and drought while working with the Nigerian weekly Tell.

Date Posted: 17 July 2006 Last Modified: 17 July 2006