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AFYMP Nominates LASUSTECH Student As 2024 Campus Journalism Fellow

By Wekpa ThankGod and Ibrahim Habeeb 

The African Foundation for Young Media Professionals (AFYMP) has nominated Miss Olaoluwa Esther, a 200 level Journalism Sequence student of the Department of Mass Communication, Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH), as one of the Campus Journalism Fellow for 2024.

The information was contained in a recent statement released on the AFYMP's social media handle @africamediafdn which congratulated all the 19 nominees from campuses within Nigeria and other African countries as Kenya, Zambia, Mali and the Gambia.
Miss Olaoluwa's nomination was facilitated by AFYMP a non governmental organization(NGO) aimed at assisting young media professionals to hone their crafts as good media professionals and writers.

However, as part of her fellowship, Olaoluwa Esther who is the Deputy Advert Manager of the Union of Campus Journalist (LASUSTECH chapter), will start her fellowship with a 2-day intensive workshop at University of Ibadan Hotels, between the 15th and 16th of May, 2024.

Lasustech chapter of the Union of Campus Journalists therefore wishes her the best of luck in her new role as an ambassador of both the Union, the Department and LASUSTECH in general.

The initiative is under the auspices of Africa Young Media Professionals with the support from Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism and McArthur Foundation.

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