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Otufodunrin, Koleoso, Oyesomi others bag UNILAG Mass Comm Alumni awards

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The Executive Director of Media Career Development Network, Lekan Otufodunrin and other members of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Mass Communication Alumni Association (UMCAA) have been honoured for their excellent professional practice during the year and contributions to the development of the association. Otufodunrin, former Managing Editor and Sunday Editor of The Nation Newspaper was […]

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Winners emerge for Youth Digest Campus Journalism Award

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Winners have emerged for the 2021 Campus Journalism Award organised by Youths Digest. A student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, AbdulWasiu Olookoba won the “Editor of the Year Award”. Olookoba beat Kareem Shamsudeen, from the University of Ibadan who was also shortlisted as a finalist. Fourteen other students from different tertiary institutions in Nigeria won

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Winners of 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative

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Olukunle Akinrinade of The Nation Newspaper has emerged the winner of the 2021 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting  Nigeria Investigative Reporter of the Year organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ). Akinrinade also won the print category of the award along with other category winners during the award ceremony held on

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Youths Digest shortlists finalists for 2021 Campus Journalism Awards

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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

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Nigerian gets ‘ NEW Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund’ grant

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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

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

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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

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Two Nigerians nominated for Africa investigative journalism award

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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

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

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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

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