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Damilola Banjo

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Covers:  Education, health, and social justice
Investigative Journalist || 🎖️Emmy nominee || 🎓 @columbiajourn || Building @karahousemedia || ✍️ @pass_blue || Arit Okpo stan account.

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Damilola Banjo’s Biography

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Banjo Damilola is an investigative journalist from Nigeria. She reports on education, health, and social justice. She was one of Transparency International’s young journalists in 2018. A graduate of Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan.

She has carried out some of the most daunting investigations in Nigeria. She investigated the killings and kidnappings in Zamfara State. Her piece reverberated and led to a nationwide protest, demanding improved security in the region. S…

Damilola Banjo’s Journalist Portfolio

Blood-Thirsty Demons Of Zamfara

Blood-Thirsty Demons Of Zamfara

Zamfara State has been a hotbed of killings and kidnappings. The media is awash with reportage of these incid…

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INVESTIGATION: Inside a Lagos state school where A1 can be bought

INVESTIGATION: Inside a Lagos state school where A1 can be bought

Over the years, there has been a consistent increase in the number of students seeking tertiary education in …

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JUSTICE FOR SALE - An SR Investigative Documentary

JUSTICE FOR SALE - An SR Investigative Documentary

Justice For Sale: For the last year, our reporter has been observing the corrupt officials crippling the Just…

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Articles

‘We’ve Prevented a Crash,’ Says UN Controller About the Organization’s Cash Woes

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Chandramouli Ramanathan, the UN’s controller, told reporters on July 1, 2026, that the organization has averted a “crash” related to its financial situation by temporarily overhauling a decades-old, burdensome fiscal rule. LOEY FELIPE/UN PHOTO The United Nations General Assembly has overhauled a decades-old rule that has forced the world body to return cash it never actually collects to all member states in a practice that has worsened the organization’s current financial crisis.
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Will Secretary-General Candidates’ Dual Citizenships Trip Them Up?

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In April, the UN General Assembly held “interactive dialogues” with candidates vying to become the next secretary-general, including Macky Sall, above, an ex-president of Senegal. It turns out that some nominees have dual citizenship, which is not a technicality that prevents their campaigns from continuing but raises questions among member states.
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Guyana’s Candidate Is Aiming to Be the First ‘She’ Secretary-General

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Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Guyana’s envoy to the UN, faced a range of questions from member states and civil society in her bid to be the next secretary-general, competing with six other candidates. She referred to her vision of leading the UN as pragmatic and principled, June 18, 2026.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I reported the courts in Lagos, Nigeria

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

I don't have one

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To tell stories that would rather not be told.

Awards

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Wole Soyinka Investigative Journalist of the year 2020

2020 - Investigative journalism
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Fetisov Journalism Awards

2019 - Shortlist- Investigative report
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Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award

2019 - Runner-up young journalist of the year
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Kurt Schork Memorial Awards

2019 - FInalist- Local Reporter category
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