By Seye Joseph
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) the umbrella body for practicing and professional journalists in both the print and broadcast media in Nigeria has called for entries for the 2013 Ladi Lawal NUJ Journalist of the Year.
The award is named after Alhaji Ladi Lawal former National President and Lagos State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) who died in 2009 at 54.
The award open for all journalists whose work have been published or broadcast within last year has politics, business, crime, entertainment, telecoms categories.
Other categories are aviation, education, health, gender, issues and photography.
Applicants in the print media are urged to send five copies of their published report while their counterparts in the broadcast should submit five audio and video CD as broadcast in the station with the script of the report.
All entries must be accompanied with reference letter from the nominee’s head of department and sent to NUJ National Secretariat, off Gwarinpa Road, Sector Center A, Jahi District, Abuja on or before Friday March 21, 2014.
Enquiries should be directed to Waheed Odusile 08033029086 and Gbemiga Bamidele 08053000100
Lawal former Group Managing Director of DAAR Communications was Director of News and Current Affairs, Deputy General Manager of Operations, General Manager of Services, General Manager of Television, Special Adviser to the Executive Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director of Operations and Director General of broadcasting outfit.
His journalism career spans both the print and electronic media. He served in public sector broadcasting as News Staff of Radio Nigeria and rose to a supervisory level before he left to take up an appointment in the print media as Chairman, Editorial Board of the News/Tempo Magazine.
Following the deregulation of the Broadcast sector, he returned to the Electronic media to face the pioneering challenges of private sector broadcasting. Ladi was a former Vice President (Africa) of the International Organisation of Journalists.
He served in the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and has presented several papers on media and humanities both home and abroad.
Late Lawal has several awards to his credit including Best Student (News) Reporting, NIJ (1978) and Best Student (Broadcasting) NIJ (1985). He studied Journalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NUJ”) and was awarded a Diploma in Journalism in 1985.
He later underwent a part-time course in History and International Studies at the Lagos State University where he graduated in 2005.
He is an alumnus of Ashridge Management College.
