Emmanuel Mayah is a senior correspondent with The Sun Newspaper in Lagos and a 1992 graduate of Electrical Engineering. He obtained a Diploma in investigation and report writing in 1999. Emmanuel was the Nigerian Journalist who tracked down Marcus Grear, former head of ex-president Charles Taylor’s killer squad, who revealed how two Nigerian journalists were beheaded in Liberia during the civil war that lasted from 1989-1996.

In 2005 Mayah won the 1st prize in the Print category of the Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award for exposing the degrading industrial relation culture in Nigerian industries. He had joined a company as a labourer for three months to achieve this feat.

Quoting Maya in his application, “I hope to apply the knowledge I will take back to the newsroom in seeking and identifying fresh reportorial ideas as well as use same in verifying and questioning HIV/AIDS statistics routinely dished out by government and its agencies.  I also will use the training program to understand the HIV/AIDS question in its totality, discover new perspectives that can enhance my performance as an investigative reporter which inevitably will be passed on to junior reporters whose works I supervise”.

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