Mariya Shuaibu Suleiman, a reporter at PREMIUM TIMES, has been selected for the 2026 UK Media Excellence for Emerging Technologies (UK MEET) Fellowship, a programme geared toward strengthening the capability of journalists and digital content material creators to report science, innovation and emerging technology.
Ms Suleiman was selected alongside different members from Nigeria and Ghana for the fellowship, to be delivered by Imperial College London via Imperial Global Ghana, with assist from the British High Commission.
In an e mail saying the choice, the organisers mentioned the programme acquired greater than 500 purposes from journalists and content material creators throughout each nations, with solely 13 per cent of candidates accepted.
According to the organisers, Ms Suleiman’s software stood out for her reporting document, clear perspective and proposed story pitch.
About the fellowship
The UK MEET Fellowship is designed to strengthen journalists’ skill to report precisely and responsibly on emerging applied sciences, and talk developments in science, innovation and technology to the general public.
The programme covers areas corresponding to synthetic intelligence, local weather and environmental applied sciences, well being technology and different scientific developments.
The 2026 fellowship contains residential coaching in Ghana and Nigeria. The Ghana residential started on 11 October and is scheduled to finish on 17 October, whereas the Nigerian a part of the programme will likely be held in Abuja from 18 to 24 October.
During the coaching, members will have interaction with researchers engaged on emerging applied sciences and be taught to scrutinise scientific claims, confirm info, determine related information and talk advanced scientific developments in accessible language.
The fellowship may even present sensible classes to assist members develop story pitches, refine reporting angles and determine sources and methods related to getting their tales printed.
According to the organisers, fellows will additional develop and refine their story pitches in the course of the residential coaching, whereas those that produce the strongest and most rigorous pitches will likely be thought-about for a UK Knowledge Exchange go to to London in late November.
Those selected will have interaction with researchers at Imperial College London and be taught the science behind their proposed tales.
The 2026 programme follows an earlier cohort of the fellowship. In April, the British High Commissions in Abuja and Accra introduced {that a} set of journalists from Nigeria and Ghana had accomplished a UK-funded science-reporting programme at Imperial College London.
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The programme included laboratory visits, skilled workshops and media abilities coaching designed to strengthen evidence-based science reporting.
About Ms Suleiman
Ms Suleiman is a PREMIUM TIMES reporter on the newspaper’s Business Desk. She covers a number of beats and produces accountability and investigative stories.
In 2025, she emerged because the second runner-up within the Isu Elihle Journalism Awards, which recognised journalism centered on kids’s rights and points affecting kids.
Her choice for the UK MEET Fellowship will present a possibility to strengthen her reporting on emerging applied sciences and their implications for Nigerian communities.
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