Abdulhaleem Ishaq-Ringim of the Ahamadu Bello University (ABU) who won the ‘Campus Journalist of the Year’ at the 2021 Campus Journalism Awards (CJA) organised by Youths Digest has said winning the award is a challenge to step up his writings.
Ishaq-Ringim, who bagged the award at the ceremony held in Abuja on Saturday, 11th December, also won the ‘Best Syndicated Writer Award’.
“Winning the campus journalist of the year award is indeed one of my greatest achievements so far. It means a lot to me and also symbolises the need to step up and do more. Basically, it is a defining and motivating circumstance,” Ishaq-Ringim stated in an interview.
Advising his fellow student journalists and those interested in journalism, he said there is a need to adhere to the principles of objectivity, consistency, excellence, and ethics while practising whatever form of campus journalism.
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“They say what is worth doing is worth doing well, hence, we should all strive for a stellar reputation.”
Ishaq-Ringim does not only practice core campus journalism, he is a political and public affairs analyst who writes opinion columns.
He commended the organisers of Campus Journalism Awards “for their industry, initiative, and innovation” and the leadership of Mr. Gidado Shuaib for “creating, managing, and sustaining such an impeccable national platform for celebrating journalism and writing from the young breed.”
