Gbenro Adesina
Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has congratulated a Nigerian seasoned broadcaster, Stephanie Busari, for being the only Nigerian selected into 2020 World Fellow at Yale University.
According to a Press Statement, signed by the Head, Media, PR and Protocols Unit of NIDCOM, Rahman Balogun, Busari, Head of CNN Nigeria Bureau, is the only Nigerian selected among others for the international fellowship award.
According to her, Busari had paid her dues in the international broadcast industry and was not surprised about her selection as the only Nigerian among other global fellows.
Busari, an awards winning journalist read French and Public Media at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds. She also did a Diploma Programme at the University of Rennes. She started her journalism career at the defunct New Nation, a London-based newspaper. She had also worked with the Daily Mirror and BBC News. She joined CNN in 2008 and in 2016; she relocated to Lagos, Nigeria, to head CNN Bureau office. In 2017, she won a Hollywood Gracie Award and the Outstanding Woman in the Media Awards for her deep coverage of the missing Nigerian Chibok school girls. She is a 2016 recipient of the Divas of Colour International Women’s Awards’ for Global Leadership. She made the inaugural global list of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) in the year 2017 in which she was also a Hall of Fame Award, recipient.
Yale World Fellows is an international fellowship programme at Yale University for rising global leaders.
Each year, the programme selects 16 World Fellows and Busari, a Nigerian-born Journalist beat thousands of applicants from around the world to secure one of the 16 spots.
According to the university, World Fellows are people of character, integrity, energy, and talent who have shown a commitment to creating a good society and to making a positive impact at local, national and international level.
