Citi FM/TV's Umaru Sanda attends Sustainable Development Reporting Course in Abidjan

Citi FM/TV’s Umaru Sanda Amadu is headed to Abidjan to attend the 2019 Sustainable Development Reporting Course for African journalists in Cote d’Ivoire.

The May 29 to June 1, 2019 training is being organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and administered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

It is a reporting course in response to the need to build the capacity of African journalists and will focus on increasing the role of the media in development.

Umaru Sanda will be engaged in interactive lectures, reporting development impact stories, multimedia storytelling, and a field visit with other participants.

This is not the first time Amadu has been selected to partake in such an international workshop.

Last November, he was the only Ghanaian journalist to be part of an 80 member global team to participate in the US Embassy’s 2018 International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) by the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship.

Umaru Sanda who hosts Eyewitness News weeknights on Ghana’s leading English speaking radio station, Citi FM, was chosen for his proven professionalism and hard work on the media landscape.

He is noted for conducting witty and probing interviews aimed at holding public officers accountable and providing adequate information to his audience.

Umaru Sanda, who prides himself as a herdsman and a community child has risen through the ranks in the newsroom over his 8-year stay at the Adabraka based media house.

He has grown from a cub reporter to producer of the Award Winning Citi Breakfast Show and Eyewitness News before hosting the weekend’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue and later, anchor of the evening flagship radio programme Eyewitness News.

He also anchors the Citi Newsroom programme on the company’s latest addition, Citi TV.

He has won several local and international awards for exceptional radio documentaries produced on specific subject areas.

His most recent award was the Ghana Journalists’ Association’s recognition of his work as the Best Journalist in SDGs Reporting.

Previous awards conferred on Umaru Sanda include the WASH Media Awards organized in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Radio for Peacebuilding Awards organized in Kigali, Rwanda.

Umaru Sanda Amadu holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and is known for his love for domestic travel from which he produces feature articles exposing the plight of ordinary Ghanaians in the hinterlands.

Source: citifmonline.com