Two staff of The Punch newspapers, Folashade Adebayo and Dayo Oketola have been nominated as finalists for the 2016 CNN/ MultiChoice African Journalists of the Year award.
Adebayo is a Senior Correspondent on the Daily edition, while Oketola is News Editor, Saturday Punch.
Adebayo, an award-winning journalist covers science, health and education stories..
A former staff of Tell Newspaper, Adebayo was winner of the Nigeria Academy of Science Reporter of the Year in 2015.
Oketola is also serial media award winner with strength in business, economic, ICT, energy, and politics reporting.
In 2015, he was winner of the Energy Category, Zimeo Excellence in Media Awards held in Johannesburg, South Africa
Two staff of The Punch, Femi Azu and Arukaino Umukoro won the CNN/ MultiChoice awards in Business and Sports categories respectively in 2015.
