Awards & Fellowships

Asishana is AMDF 2021 Journalist of the Year

The Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) has named Justina Asishana as its Journalist of the Year following her report on the security situation in the Shiroro local government area of Niger state in Nigeria She was announced as the winner after the 5th Africa Conference on Development Journalism held virtually on Tuesday 7th December 2021. The […]

Asishana is AMDF 2021 Journalist of the Year Read More »

Youths Digest shortlists finalists for 2021 Campus Journalism Awards

The organisers of the annual Campus Journalism Awards (CJA), Youths Digest, have shortlisted the names of the successful finalists for this year’s edition. According to the organisers, a total of 304 entries were submitted from over 50 universities nationwide, with the finalists selected from fifteen Nigerian educational institutions across 15 prize categories. The “Edirin Jerry-Wesley

Youths Digest shortlists finalists for 2021 Campus Journalism Awards Read More »

Nigerian gets ‘ NEW Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund’ grant

A freelancer, Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi has been named a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting ‘ NEW Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund’ announced on November 04, 2021. Adeyemi is formerly an Associate Researcher – Conflicts & Terrorism and Research Analyst at Premium Times Center for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ], Abuja – www.ptcij.org. ‘Vendors Relations

Nigerian gets ‘ NEW Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund’ grant Read More »

IOM

Eight journalists (Four Nigerians) win 2021 West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards

Eight journalists have been announced as winners of the 2021 West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The winners named at a virtual ceremony held on November 10 received up to USD 1,250 each and a plaque of recognition. The winners and their entries are listed below: The

Eight journalists (Four Nigerians) win 2021 West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards Read More »

Two Nigerians nominated for Africa investigative journalism award

Banjo Damilola, award-winning Nigeria investigative journalist and Yusuf Akinpelu, Head of Data Desk Premium Times Nigeria have been nominated for the Norbert Zongo (PAJI-NZ) African Prize for Investigative Journalism. Nominees for the investigative journalism award were drawn from four categories: newspaper press, radio, television and online press. Both Banjo and Akinpelu were nominated for the

Two Nigerians nominated for Africa investigative journalism award Read More »

New Telegraph’s Elegbede wins NMMA Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021 Award

The Board of Assessors of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMM) has adjudged multiple award-winning journalist, Wale Elegbede, as Nigeria’s Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021. Elegbede’s winning entry, ‘Foreign Missions: Underfunding, Corruption Battered Nigeria’s Image’, chronicled tales of woes, disappointments, ill-treatment, corruption, and poor services rendered to Nigerians by foreign missions, which ought

New Telegraph’s Elegbede wins NMMA Foreign Reporter of the Year 2021 Award Read More »

Daily Trust’s Health Editor third in global reporting contest

The Health Editor of Daily Trust Newspaper, Nigeria, Ojoma Akor has emerged as the third-place winner of the 2021 Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Contest for her story about a rural community’s efforts to stave off hunger in orphans. Leon Lidigu, a Kenyan journalist who revealed the struggles of a vulnerable community faced with malnutrition

Daily Trust’s Health Editor third in global reporting contest Read More »

Nigeria’s Newsletter publisher, others win $10,000 grant

Founder/CEO of Afrobeats Intelligence, a weekly newsletter on African music, Joey Akpan has won a $10,000 (no strings attached) Creator Grant offered by Pallet, a New York-based organisation. Akpan is one of the three winners of the $10,000 grant which Pallet says is to accelerate the future it wants to see. “A world where consumers’

Nigeria’s Newsletter publisher, others win $10,000 grant Read More »