Sharon Ijasan is a Nigerian journalist. In 2023, she emerged the winner of the 18th Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism on the story of Human Trafficking – Sad reality of trafficked Nigerians in Libya, West Africa.

Ijasan is a graduate of Mass Communication from Babcock University, and currently the Labor orrespondent at Television Continental.[1]

Awards edit

Ijasan, in 2019, won 2 million grant from an anonymous donor at 14th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting ceremony in Lagos by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Reporting (WSCIJ), to report on child labour. This was after she clinched the runner-up in the Television category for the above award.[2]

She is a 2018 fellow of the ReportWomen program of the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Reporting (WSCIJ).[2]

References edit

  1. ^ "Sharon Ijasan". Report Women. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  2. ^ a b "Reporter gets N2m support grant for child labour reporting". Media Career Services. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2024-03-13.