Mariam Ileyemi, a journalist with PREMIUM TIMES, has been nominated for the Outstanding Health Investigation Award forward of the 2026 Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PSHAN) Annual Awards.
The nomination was announced on Monday within the Media and Innovative Health Communication class, with Ms Ileyemi listed among the many prime three nominees.
Ms Ileyemi was nominated for her open-source investigation, “Social media, anonymous websites drive Nigeria’s poorly regulated weight-loss injection market,” which examined how weight-loss injections are being marketed and bought with out prescriptions. The investigation additionally uncovered a community of nameless web sites selling weight-loss injections, together with retatrutide, an investigational drug nonetheless present process scientific trials.
PSHAN says the Outstanding Health Investigation Award recognises investigations that uncover systemic healthcare points. Ms Ileyemi is nominated alongside Sadeeq Atanda of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Yemisi Adegoke, Chigozie Nwonwu and Lina Shaikhouni of BBC/BBC Eye.
PSHAN stated an professional panel of judges will choose the winner of every award and announce the outcomes at its Annual Awards and Gala Night on 20 November 2026.
Other nominees
Other awards embrace the Health Influencer of the Year, which recognises digital creators selling credible health content material, and the Health Journalism Excellence Award.
The prime three nominees for Health Influencer of the Year are Olawale Ogunlana, Olufunke Arowolo and Chinonso Egemba, popularly often known as Aproko Doctor.
For the Health Journalism Excellence Award, the nominees are Racheal Abujah of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ojoma Akor of Health & Science Africa, and Bilkis Abdulraheem-Lawal of Radio Nigeria/Grassroots Broadcast.
About Mariam Ileyemi
Ms Ileyemi is a journalist on the Health and Development Desk at PREMIUM TIMES, the place she stories on health, gender and improvement points. She was named PREMIUM TIMES Reporter of the Year 2025 on the newspaper’s Annual Editorial Awards.
She is a fellow of the 2025 Africa Health Communications Fellowship by Fraycollege, South Africa, and a beneficiary of the 2023 Media-EIS Fellowship, amongst different fellowships.
She can also be a recipient of the Mamman Marshall Scholarship for Women in Journalism and was nominated for the 2024 Nigeria Healthcare Excellence Award within the Prevent Epidemics class.
Ms Ileyemi holds a level in Mass Communication from the Lagos State University (LASU).
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