Roger A. Agana

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Born
Roger Agambire Agana

Nationality Ghanaian
Alma materWeb Developer and SEO Expert
Occupation(s) Blogger, digital journalist, reporter
Known for Online journalism
Website newsghana.com.gh

Roger Agambire Agana, better known as Label, is a journalist from the Upper East Region of Ghana.

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Life and career

Agana nurtured an interest in digital journalism and later co-founded Modernghana.com in 2005. [1]

He took over the management of Spy Ghana in 2012 and later rebranded it as News Ghana. [2] Today it is Ghana's most popular online news portal. [3]

Computer Background

Agana is a member of Penplusbytes (International Institute for ICT Journalism) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for Computing Machinery, IFEJ Ghana (Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists). [4]

Economic contribution

He revealed his plans towards economic growth for Ghana with the rapper Asumadu [5] [6] [7] ]

Awards and nominations

2017Forty Under 40 awardsMedia (Digital & Social)Won [8]
2017Forty Under 40 awardsJournalism (Radio/ TV/ Newspaper)Nominated [9]
20173rd annual Creative African Awards (CA Awards) 2017Best JournalistWon [10]
20173rd annual Creative African Awards (CA Awards) 2017Best News EditorNominated [11]

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References

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  2. "Meet The Managing Director Of News Ghana". Admin. NewsGhana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. "Spy Ghana Rebrands To Become News Ghana". modernghana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. "Roger A. Agana's Page". penplusybytes. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  5. "Make Creativity A Hallmark Of Ghana's Economic Growth". Admin. NewsGhana. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  6. "Creativity As A Tool For Economic Growth; Rapper Asumadu Reveals". peacefmonline. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  7. "Rapper Asumadu and Roger Agana discuss challenges in Music and Media". spynewsagency. Jeorge Wilson Kingson. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  8. "Full list of winners at 2017 forty Under 40 Award". kasapafmonline.com. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  9. "nominee list". 40under40awards.com.gh. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  10. "CA Awards 2017, the winners". chubmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  11. "CA Awards 2017 finalists". chubmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-09-03.