Luv FM’s Clinton Yeboah Shines At 30th GJA Awards, KNUST Alumni Dominate

KNUST law student Clinton Yeboah has won the Best Radio Feature award at the 30th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Media Awards held in Accra on 7 November 2026.

Yeboah, a journalist with Luv FM and an alumnus of the University’s Communication and Media Studies programme, was honoured for a powerful radio feature examining the experiences of women living with obstetric fistula.

Fellow KNUST law student Nana Boakye Dankwah Yiadom also emerged as a runner-up, alongside alumni Emmanuel Bright Quaicoe and Doris Lonta, in a night that underscored KNUST’s growing influence in Ghanaian journalism.

The ceremony, held at the Palms Convention Centre of the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, recognised outstanding journalistic work published in 2025 under the theme, “Celebrating Excellence, Advancing Media Freedom and Combating Hate Speech in the Digital Age.”

Yeboah’s national award follows two first-place honours in Health Journalism and Business and Economy Journalism at the recent GJA Ashanti Regional Media Excellence Awards.

Yeboah, Dankwah Yiadom and Lonta are alumni of the Department of Language and Communication Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. Both Yeboah and Dankwah Yiadom have returned to the University to study law.

Yeboah and Dankwah Yiadom work with the Multimedia Group’s Luv FM and JoyNews, while Lonta works with Citi FM and Channel One TV. Quaicoe, a JoyNews journalist, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from KNUST.

Quaicoe was recently named Ashanti Regional Journalist of the Year for 2025. He also won Best Feature Production and Best in Agriculture Journalism at the regional awards, while Dankwah Yiadom won the Community Impact Journalism category.