Full List Of Winners Of The 2015 Ghana Journalist Association Awards

A total of twenty-six (26) Ghanaian journalists were awarded on Saturday night at the 20th Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Awards ceremony under the theme: “Ghana in Search of Reliable Energy to Power Development: The Role of the Media.”.

The ceremony which was held at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra saw Joy FM’s Seth Kwame Boateng emerged Journalist of the Year based on his radio and TV documentary that exposed the plight of prisoners at the Nsawam Maximus Security prisons.

Below is the full list of the award winners

• Seth J. Bokpe – GJA Komla Dumor Most Promising Young Journalist Award
• Seth Kwame Boateng (Joy FM) Features on Radio – (Bloody land)
• Seth Kwame Boateng – Features on Television (I shake I walk)
• Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) – (Energy self-sufficiency; village of Dadekokpe)
• Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) – Agriculture – (Watermelon not just water and sugar)
• Joseph Opoku Gakpo (Joy FM) – Poverty alleviation (Millennium)
• Abdul Moomen (GTV) – Human rights – (Killing the spirt of children)
• Wendy Laryea (TV3) – Education – (The waiting is over)
• Wendy Laryea (TV3) – Digital journalism – (From floor to desk)
• Rebecca Awuah (GBC) – Arts and Tourism
• Elvis Darko (Finder) – Courts and crime (One woman, two husbands)
• Mabel Aku Baneseh (Daily Graphic) – Anti corruption – (Rot at National Service Scheme)
• Daniel Manor (Chronicle) – Environment – (Galamsey)
• Kwetey Nartey(Joy FM) – Investigative Reporting – (Red light beats)
• Kwetey Nartey (Joy FM) – Narcotics – (Narcotic school boys)
• Jamila Akweley Oketchiri (Daily Guide) – Feature writing (print) Liquid gold best food ever
• Zadok K. Gyesi (Daily Graphic) Small and Medium Enterprise (Unnoticed gold mining)
• Samuel Adadi Akapule (GNA) – MDG reporting
• Della Rusell Ocloo (Daily Graphic) – Sanitation – (Ongoing battle with Zinginshor)
• David Andoh (Myjoyonline) – Photography – (Two motorbikes in head-on collision)
• Kafui Kanyi (GNA) – Rural reporting; Child labour – (Kids abandon school)
• Alberto Mario Noretti (Ghanaian Times) – Rural reporting – (Dabi dabi where no one dies)
• Doreen Hammond (Daily Graphic) – Education (print) – (The state of libraries)
• Samuel Kyei Boateng (Daily Graphic) News (print)
• Ayele Ayittey ( TV Africa) – Disability ( Who leans sign language)
• Nii Adjeiklu (GBC Obonu) Best Ga programme
• Nana Konadu Agyemang ( Taxis as hearse)
• Moses Dotse Aklorbortu (Daily Graphic) -Oil and gas (Oil rigs beg for decommissioning)
• Felix Klutse ( Business Day) – Indigenous banks
• Benedict Owusu (Joy FM) – Sports (Age cheating)
• Rebecca Ekpe (GBC ) Local governance