{"id":3354,"date":"2017-05-02T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:15:58","slug":"journalist-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2017\/05\/02\/journalist-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Of The Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3355 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707-600x1067.jpg 600w, https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170215_104707.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>A Kaduna based journalist, Ruquayyah Umar Farouq is the AMDF<br \/>\nJournalist of the Month for May.<\/p>\n<p>Ruquayyah, a broadcast journalist with Liberty Radio\/TV in Kaduna<br \/>\nNorth West Nigeria is a graduate of Mass communication from the Kaduna<br \/>\nPolytechnic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a child I had always had a flair for broadcast journalism, I loved<br \/>\npresentation and I would usually admire presenters I see on the<br \/>\nTelevision or listen to on radio and I aspired to be like them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She asserts that being a broadcast journalist is fulfilling and she is<br \/>\nexcited doing all she does.<br \/>\nRuquayyah hails from Song in Adamawa state, North East, Nigeria.<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaduna based journalist, Ruquayyah Umar Farouq is the AMDF Journalist of the Month for May. Ruquayyah, a broadcast journalist with Liberty Radio\/TV in Kaduna North West Nigeria is a&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2017\/05\/02\/journalist-of-the-month\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalists-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13130,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/13130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}