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Idah Waringa (born October 27th) is an award winning Kenyan television and radio Sports Journalist from Nairobi.

Waringa is currently a Sports Presenter & Reporter at NTV under Nation Media Group (NMG), the largest private media house in East and Central Africa. She hosts and reports for Top Sport - the highest rated local TV sports show on Saturday – as well as anchoring & reporting for NTV Sports News.

She is also a top interviewer, having sat down with several global sports personalities including Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Jay Jay Okocha, Rio Ferdinand, Thomas Partey, Kwesi Appiah, Frederic Kanoute and Dean Windass.

Furthermore, Waringa is a corporate emcee and events host, having hosted some of East Africa’s biggest sporting events including the Athletics Kenya Golden Gala Awards and the Safaricom Sports Personality of the Year Awards (SOYA), which had Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto as it’s guest of honour.

Waringa was previously at Bamba Sport TV, Kenya’s first 24 hour sports station under Radio Africa Group, as a live studio anchor where she hosted 2 football shows - Monday Night Football and Kenya’s only football betting show The Odds.

She also regularly filled in on Football 254 which is a show that focuses solely on the Kenyan football scene.

Waringa was part of Bamba Sport’s coverage of the 2018 World Cup with a daily studio show.

She was also part of the station’s coverage of the 2017 Kenyan Premier League, as well as its continuing live broadcast of the National Super League.

Waringa's experience in radio has been at Radio Africa Group where she filled in on numerous occasions throughout a 3 year period on Kenya's highest rated weekend sports radio show, The Score Kenya with celebrated sports journalist Carol Radull.

Waringa is among the few African sports journalists who were selected by FIFA to attend it's 2018 FIFA Forward Funding Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss on development of football in the continent.

Waringa's mini-documentary "Acakoro: From Grass to Grace" won the 2018 award for Best Kenyan Story in the Kenyan International Sports Film Festival, the first of it's kind in Africa with over 1,300 entries from across the world.

The same documentary was also nominated in the AIPS Media Awards. It made it to Top 10 in Africa and Top 20 in the world.

Television and Radio;

NTV Bamba Sport Kiss 100FM & Classic 105FM The Score Kenya KTN