Armstrong-Ogbonna, a freelance journalist with Radio Nigeria’s Radio One, won the award for her reportage on neglected communities along the Lagos coastline.
She investigated how local residents in Okun Alfa and Otodo-gbame in Lagos were threatened with extinction and eviction respectively.
Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna
According to the UNCA, “Armstrong-Ogbonna braves dangers to report on Nigeria’s coastal communities ravaged by conflict and degrading environment that affect development and human lives.”
With almost ten years of experience as a multimedia and environmental journalist, Armstrong-Ogbonna has focused her reportage on neglected communities like Okun Alfa and Otodo-gbame, as well as Sagbo Kodji Island and Makoko in Lagos state, and other communities across Nigeria.
She reported on how Sagbo Kodji had never been connected to power supply despite being located on an island that overlooks the high rise buildings of commercial Lagos Island as well as Apapa sea port.
The report was seen by a renewable energy company owned by two young Nigerians, who approached the community and provided solar power panels and batteries to local residents, thereby lighting up the community for the first time.
Reacting to the prize, Armstrong-Ogbonna said she was humbled by the recognition from the United Nations.
“It is a major encouragement for me to persist with impacting journalism that affects the common man and development of the environment. I am much obliged for this,” she said.
Until recently, Armstrong-Ogbonna produced and presented a weekly environmental programme on community development called Community Diary on Radio One 103.5 FM in Lagos.
She has also produced content for Reuters, CNN, German Information Center, and EnviroNews Nigeria.
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