Teliat Abiodun Sule of Business Day has been named winner of the 2014 Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards in Nigeria.
His won the award with the article titled “The Return of African Kitchen Business” published in Business Day on January 17th, 2013.
Collins Nweze of The Nation emerged the first runner-up with the story- Banking with tears…Tales from the blind while Adedeji Ademigbuji ,now of The Nation was the second runner-up with the story- Multibillion naira aluminum industry under siege published in National Mirror.
The 6th edition of the prestigious media award held on April 30, 2014 in Lagos was open to business journalists in all forms of media including the internet, print, radio, television and wire services.
For the 2014 competition, Citi Nigeria received fifteen (15) entries from business reporters across various media outlets, including Business Day, Daily Independent, Forbes Africa, Invest Advocate, Leadership, National Mirror, Punch, Nation and Vanguard.
Three finalists were selected by a panel of judges which included Mrs. Mosun Layode, Executive Director of Women in Management, Business and Public Services (WIMBIZ),Mr. Soni Irabor,Managing Director of SDI/Ruyi Communications and Mr. Wole Famurewa, 2012 winner of the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award in Nigeria. Famurewa is also the Market Editor for CNBC West Africa.
The Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards sends winning journalists to an elite seminar at Columbia University in New York. The international journalist’s conference is a special program sponsored by Citi and administered by Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
For thirty years, the program has served to improve the quality of business journalism in the developing world by exposing leading local journalists to the issues and people that drive the global economy.
This year, selected journalists from Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Hong Kong, Korea, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, Spain, South Africa, The Netherlands, and Zambia will get to meet with leaders of the international business community, government, media and academia in New York.
In previous years, former NY Federal Reserve President, William McDonough, former NY Federal President- Timothy Geithner and Ambassador Felix Rohatyn have spoken to the group as have Columbia professors- R. Glenn Hubbard, JagdishBhagwati, Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs.
Winners of the Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards according to the organisers are expected to play significant roles in shaping their countries’ perceptions of the international business environment. Meeting with the eminent and thought-provoking speakers on the agenda is expected to enhance their ability to interpret the global economy for their readers and viewers.