Days after he was gunned down by terrorists at Dusit2D attack, details have surfaced that one James Oduor alias Cobra, had been nominated for twin global wards.
It has emerged that on January 12, 2019 when the AIPS Sports Media Awards published its Top Ten finalists from each continent, James Oduor emerged among the top ten finalists.
Cobra was incidentally nominated twice in the blogs section for his pieces that he had uploaded on his Vblog Wadau TV covering majorly football at the grassroots level.
One of Cobra's recognition is the "We Must Relive History” Gor Mahia Fans, a piece that showed the opening match of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) championships preliminaries between Gor Mahia FC and Equatorial Guinea's Vegetarians club.
The second of the top pieces that propelled him to another nomination was the "Oti Father’s Favorite Phrase".
The Awards submissions touched hearts owing to their inspiring level of journalistic content emanating from across the five continents, a confirmation that the quality of sports storytelling across the globe was on the rise.
During the tragic attack, Cobra who worked at the LG Nairobi offices, was among the very first people to sound a distress call immediately the attack was staged by the suspected Al Shabaab assailants.
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