Awards & Fellowships

Etisalat photo competition calls for entries

Entries for the 2016 edition of the Lagos Photo Festival tagged Performance, with sub-categories will close on September 11. Enthusiasts and professional photographer have an opportunity to compete and win in the Etisalat sponsored Photography competition. According to the organisers, interested participants are required to visit www.photo.etisalat.com.ng to register and submit for both daily routines […]

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Award for best coverage of UN, agencies

2016 U.N. Correspondents Association Awards For Best Journalistic Coverage Of The United Nations And U.N. Agencies WINNERS WILL BE HONORED AT GALA EVENT BY THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16th 2016 AT CIPRIANI WALL STREET, NEW YORK. The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) invites media worldwide to submit entries for its 21st annual UNCA

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2017 Re/Insurance Journalism Awards open for entries

Continental Reinsurance Plc has launched the second edition of the Pan-African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards. The competition, open to both English and French-speaking journalists, recognises the outstanding work of Africans who cover the insurance and reinsurance sector across the continent. The three categories in the 2017 awards are: 1. Pan-African Re/Insurance Journalist of the Year 2.

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Entries invited for PwC Media Excellence award

*N500,000 cash prize for category winners PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited has launched Media Excellence Awards to celebrate and reward excellence in business reporting in Nigeria. The PwC Media Excellence Awards is open to professional journalists on a full time employment or freelancers, working in Nigeria, who have produced a story that falls within the categories covered by

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TVC producer named IJNet's Journalist of the month

Bukunmi Ayo-Ariyo, Programme Producer and Presenter with TVC News has been named the July Journalist of the month by the International Journalists Network website ijnet.org The nomination is for an outstanding journalist who has used IJNet to further his or her career. The journalist will be interviewed and featured on IJNet. In October 2015, Ayo-Ariyo

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TVC producer named IJNet’s Journalist of the month

Bukunmi Ayo-Ariyo, Programme Producer and Presenter with TVC News has been named the July Journalist of the month by the International Journalists Network website ijnet.org The nomination is for an outstanding journalist who has used IJNet to further his or her career. The journalist will be interviewed and featured on IJNet. In October 2015, Ayo-Ariyo

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CNN/MultiChoice Award nominations : Nigeria 7, South Africa 7

Nigeria and South Africa are ahead in the list of nominations of finalists for the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2016 Competition announce last Friday. Both countries have seven nominations each while Kenya had four. There are 38 finalists from 14 countries. This year, the competition according to Ferail Haffajee, Chair of the independent judging panel,

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Two Punch staff nominated for CNN/ MultiChoice Award

Two staff of The Punch newspapers, Folashade Adebayo and Dayo Oketola have been nominated as finalists for the 2016 CNN/ MultiChoice African Journalists of the Year award. Adebayo is a Senior Correspondent on the Daily edition, while Oketola is News Editor, Saturday Punch. Adebayo, an award-winning journalist covers science, health and education stories.. A former

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Four Nigerians nominated for international journalism award

Four Nigerian Journalists made the short list of 16 in the 2016 Kurt Schork Memorial Fund Awards in International Journalism. Those nominated for two categories of the award are Fisayo Soyombo of The Cable, Motunrayo Joel of The Punch , Olatunji Ololade of The Nation and Philip Obaji. Freelance category – James Harkin (Ireland), Antony

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