Abdulganiyu Azeez reports
Shereefdeen Ahmad, a 200-level law student at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the News Digest Press board.
The appointment was made known at the 2022 Digest Festival held in A10 Lecture Hall on Sunday, 8th January 2023.
Shereefdeen, who won the 2022 Digest Journalist of the Year award, is a Writing Fellow at the Liberalist Centre’s Journalism for Liberty Fellowship.
His works have been published on different national dailies and magazines, including The Nation, Daily Trust, HumAngel media , Campus Reporter, Ripples Nigeria, and The Liberalist among others.
Shereefdeen is a winner of Digest Journalist of the Year and NACJ Sports Writer of the Year awards in 2021. He is also a finalist in two categories (Investigative Reporter and Sport Writer) at the 2022 Campus Journalism Awards (CJA) organized by Youth Digest.
In an interview with the News Digest Press, he expressed his gratitude and stated the appointment came as a surprise.
“I feel very honored and privileged to be appointed as the head of this great press outlet,”he said.”I must confess, it came as a surprise to me. I’m not the best person in Digest, however, whatever they might find in me that made them confer this very position to me, I would not disappoint the board, Inshallah”.
“The News Digest Press has been known for its qualitative journalism, and I would try as much as I can_with the help and cooperation of every member _to keep the name of the press board flying,” he added.