Awards & Fellowships

The Nation’s Oyeyemi wins Africa Correspondent Competition

The Nation Newspaper’s Head of Health Desk, Oyeyemi Gbenga-Mustapha has been selected as the winner of the World Congress of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Health (WCC 2016) Africa Correspondent Competition. WCC 2016 scheduled to take place in Mexico City, 4-7 June will bring together the world’s researchers, policymakers and health leaders to position heart health at

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The Nation's Oyeyemi wins Africa Correspondent Competition

The Nation Newspaper’s Head of Health Desk, Oyeyemi Gbenga-Mustapha has been selected as the winner of the World Congress of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Health (WCC 2016) Africa Correspondent Competition. WCC 2016 scheduled to take place in Mexico City, 4-7 June will bring together the world’s researchers, policymakers and health leaders to position heart health at

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Sunday Punch’s Motunrayo Joel wins Academy of Science media award

Sunday Punch’s Motunrayo Joel has emerged as the winner of the 2015 the Nigerian Academy of Science Media Prize with her winning entry, “Ovum trading: Inside Nigeria’s multi-million naira human egg business: http://www.punchng.com/ovum-trading-inside-nigerias-multi-million-naira-human-egg-business/ The Academy described the entry as the first expose of its end. Arukaino Umukoro also of Sunday Punch was the first runner-up

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Sunday Punch's Motunrayo Joel wins Academy of Science media award

Sunday Punch’s Motunrayo Joel has emerged winner of the 2015 the Nigerian Academy of Science Media Prize with her winning entry, “Ovum trading: Inside Nigeria’s multi-million naira human egg business: http://www.punchng.com/ovum-trading-inside-nigerias-multi-million-naira-human-egg-business/ The Academy described the entry as the first expose of its end. Arukaino Umukoro also of Sunday Punch was the first runner-up in the

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The Punch’s correspondent wins Pan-African Insurance award

Ms Nike Popoola of Nigeria’s Punch newspaper has won the Pan-African Reinsurance Journalist of the Year Award. Mr Steve Mbogo from Kenya won the Best Re/Insurance Industry Feature Article while Mr Evans Boah-Mensah of Ghana’s Business and Financial Times newspaper was awarded Best Re/Insurance Industry Analysis and Commentary. The winners of the Continental Reinsurance Pan-African

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The Punch's correspondent wins Pan-African Insurance award

Ms Nike Popoola of Nigeria’s Punch newspaper has won the Pan-African Reinsurance Journalist of the Year Award. Mr Steve Mbogo from Kenya won the Best Re/Insurance Industry Feature Article while Mr Evans Boah-Mensah of Ghana’s Business and Financial Times newspaper was awarded Best Re/Insurance Industry Analysis and Commentary. The winners of the Continental Reinsurance Pan-African

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Mujila wins 2015 Etisalat Literature prize

Poet and novelist Fiston Mwanza Mujila has emerged the winner of the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature (http://Prize.Etisalat.com.ng) for his first novel, Tram 83. Originally written in French, Tram 83 was translated into English by Roland Glasser and published by Deep Vellum. 35-year-old Mujila is the first Francophone writer to win the prestigious Etisalat Prize,

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