A Correspondent with Punch Nigeria Limited, Kunle Falayi, has won the overall prize of 2014 Promasidor Quill Awards for journalists. He also won two awards at the category level.
His entry for the Best Report on Education: Lagos school where pupils sit on bare floor, was adjudged the best and therefore earned him the award for that category. Falayi also paired with Isioma Madike, formerly of The National Mirror, but now of New Telegraph to jointly win the Best Report on Children award.
Other winners are Gbenga Salau, Correspondent of The Guardian for the Best Report on Nutrition who beat his counterpart from New Telegraph, Mojeed Alabi.
Adekunle Yusuf of The Nation newspaper clinched the award for the Best CSR & Industry Report beating Odimegwu Onwumere of Nigerian Pilot; The Future Writer of the Year and Brand Advocate awards went to Odogwu Obinna of The Sun, and Daniel Obi of BusinessDay; respectively. Ayodele Ojo of Daily Sun went home with the award for theBest Photo of the Year.
Speaking at the awards presentation, Keith Richards, Chairman of Promasidor Nigeria gave kudos to all journalists who submitted entries for different categories of the awards.
Apart from the high-end lap-top and the company’s products given to the overall winner, Chief Richards disclosed that Falayi will be sent to London for an all-expense paid four-week multi-media journalism training course with Thomson Foundation.
Following the training in London, the Chairman said that Mr. Falayi will be sent on a week job placement with a prominent British national news organisation.
Winners from all the categories with the exception of the winner of the Best Photo Story of the Year, were given high-end laptops, while the winner of the Best Photo Story of Year was given a high-end camera for their excellence performance.
According to Chief Richards, all other winners, except the overall winner, will enjoy media training at the Lagos Business School as a means of capacity building.
The panel of judges for the award include Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole, a veteran journalist, who returns as chairman of the panel of judges; Kadaria Ahmed, former editor of 234 Next, Joseph Okonmah, Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Lagos Chapter; and Reze Bonna, a renowned celebrity photographer and Architect.