Joy News' Favour Nunoo is joining British broadcaster, BBC after a two-year career stint with The Multimedia Group where he worked as Senior Broadcast journalist.
He was instrumental in the coverage of the 2016 general elections and was singled out for praise by Electoral Commission boss, Charlotte Osei who described him as an epitome of an outstanding journalist.
Nunoo lifted the lid on child prostitution in the heart of Ghana's capital, Accra in a widely praised documentary titled "Girls for Rent."
The documentary revealed how girls between the ages of 8-16 years traded sex under the watch of dangerous pimps.
He was also at his best when he reported live on Joy FM on the bloody clashes between two feuding groups from the Northern Region at Agbogbloshie in Accra.
Nunoo is generally apt with his report, and blessed with an ability to describe in picturesque form the incidents he reports on, giving the listener a better appreciation of the events.
And for young man who has put his own life at risk to cover some of the most life threatening stories, describing him as bold is only an understatement.
A career with the BBC can only be a reward for hardwork and Nunoo is one insane hardworker.
He started as a newspaper vendor on the streets of Accra in 2009. He sold the papers at the major traffic intersections, while at school as a second year student at the University of Ghana.
He shot into the limelight after producers of Good Evening Ghana an Accra-based Metro TV, drafted him as a Research Assistant for the programme in 2015.
He was later employed as a full time reporter and anchor at the station.
Nunoo's extraordinary news breaking skill was seen when he covered the tension filled 2015 National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary primary at Ningo-Prampram between E.T Mensah and Sam George. That perhaps caught the attention of Multimedia, whose managers wasted no time in bringing him on board.
Nunoo now joins the BBC as a reporter in Ghana for the new BBC Pidgin Service.
Favour Nunoo graduated from the University of Ghana with a first class in Political Science. He was a beneficiary of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung scholarship, which saw him pursue a Master's programme in Journalism at University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
He graduated as the Weekly Mail Award Winner for the Best Master's dissertation in Journalism in 2015.
After an extraordinary and compelling reporting, Nunoo joins the new BBC Pidgin Service as a reporter. The new service feeds into the BBC's plans to expand its multimedia operations in Africa and increase its weekly audience to more than 100 million across all of its platforms.
As part of his new role, Favour Nunoo will be supplying timely rich, expert and authoritative coverage (live and pre-recorded) of news/current affairs and youth-driven contents via digital and social media platforms for BBC Pidgin Service, BBC Africa and the wider BBC.
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