Fourteen finalists, made up of five female reporters and nine male, have been selected for the 16th edition of the annual Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting. The event is scheduled to hold on Thursday, 9 December 2021 at NECA House, Lagos, from 4 pm to 6 pm. The finalists were selected by the board […]
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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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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 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
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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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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Winners of the 2021 Nigeria Media Merit Awards (NMMA) have emerged at the ceremony held in Lokoja, Kogi State on Saturday, October 30, 2021. According to The NMMA Trust, organisers of the award, a total of 1,050 entries, the highest ever received since the inauguration of the awards in 1991, were received for this year’s
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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
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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’
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Nigerian journalists won five out of the seven awards at stake at the West Africa Journalists of the fifth edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) in Accra, Ghana on Friday. Samad Uthman of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, Nigeria who now works for Dataphyte, Nigeria also emerged as joint
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