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‘Five International, local fellowships: What worked for me’

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From her Minna, Niger State base where she is the Correspondent of The Nation Newspapers, Justina Asishana has been selected for major international and national journalism fellowships, grants and conferences. They include: * Fellowship to attend the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2017 * International Centre For Journalists (ICFJ) Safety Fellowship 2018 * Dubawa Fact-checking Fellowship […]

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Soyombo, Mordi win People Journalism Prize for Africa

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By Oyinlola Awonuga Nigeria’s top investigative journalists, Fisayo Soyombo and Kiki Mordi have emerged winners of the inaugural Gatefield’s People Journalism Prize for Africa (PJPA) 2019. The prize is backed by a $3000 (N1,000,000) endowment from Gatefield, a Sub-Saharan Africa public strategy firm. In an announcement on Monday by Gatefield, the organisation said: “we could

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Winners of 2019 Diamond Award for Media Excellence

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Winners have emerged in the 28th  edition of the Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) during the award ceremony held on Sunday in Lagos. Winners in different categories are as follows: Best Designed Newspaper Punch Newspapers (Winner) This Day Newspaper (First runner-up) Vanguard New paper (Second runner-up) Editorial Cartooning Bennet Omeke; The Punch – Power

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The Next Edition editor wins Wole Soyinka Centre Investigative award

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Editor of The Next Edition, an online newspaper, Isine Ibanga has emerged the winner of the 2019 Nigerian Investigative Reporter of the Year organized by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism. He was declared the winner at the award ceremony held in Lagos on Monday during which 12 other journalists, the Amnesty International Nigeria,

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Egwu, African colleagues win Hosterwriter story Prize

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International award-winning Nigerian journalist, Patrick Egwu and two colleagues, Annie Njanja (Kenya) and Mamadou Lamine Ba (Senegal) have emerged winners of the 2019 Hostwriter Story Prize for Journalism collaboration. With a cross-border story on Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria, Kenya and Senegal they were named second-place winners with 1000 euros prize grant in Berlin, Germany

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Five Nigerian journalists win regional, continental awards

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Five Nigerian journalists over the weekend won major awards at the West Africa Media Excellence Awards 2019 and the Continental Journalism Award on AU Charter. At the event held in Accra, Ghana, Destiny Onyemihia of Voice of Nigeria emerged the overall winner for the AU Charter award. For the regional award, Cletus Umoh Ukpong of

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Media key to shaping Nigeria’s future – PwC

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PwC Nigeria, a top professional service firm has reiterated the critical role the media plays in shaping Nigeria’s future and reaffirmed its commitment to promoting the quality of business reporting in Nigeria. The company stated this at its 2019 edition of the PwC Capability Enhancement workshop for journalists and Media Excellence Awards, which for four

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Call for investigative stories grant

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Oyinlola Awonuga Grants to support investigative stories on corruption in Nigeria are available for qualified and passionate investigative print, electronic and online journalists. The grants as part of the Upright4Nigeria campaign of the Strengthening Citizens’ Resistance Against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C)   are from four sectors: Education, Health, Power, and Tax Administration in Akwa-Ibom, Borno, Enugu,

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