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 of the Broom? (Winner)
Chukwuemeka Cornelius; New Telegraph – Jumbo allowances for
senators and governors (Runner-up)
News Photography
Olugbon Saheed; The Punch – Fifteen years after retirement, struggle
continues. (Winner)
Adejumo Kabir; Premium Times – Nigerian Police officer caught on
camera taking bribe (first runner-up)
Ayodele Adeniran; The Guardian – From mega city to mega dump
(Second runner-up)
Agriculture Reporting
Chikodi Anthony; The Nation – How smuggling stalls rice self-
sufficiency target (Winner)
Dauda Sulaimon; The Nation – ETLS: Conduit for palm oil smuggling
(First runner-up)
Isioma Madike; New Telegraph – Fish farming: Graduates response
to Nigeria’s unemployment crisis (Second runner-up)
Child-Friendly Medium
Daily Trust (Winner)
This Day (First runner-up)
Vanguard (Second runner-up)
Lagos Reporting
Nicholas Ibekwe; Premium Times – How Lagos govt sidelined local
operators for foreign company with no experience in waste
collection (Winner)
Tope Omogbolagun; The Punch – Lagos dump where scavengers
trade in used syringes, other surgical waste (First runner-up)
Tunbosun Ogundare; Nigerian Tribune – Drama as Lagos teachers
use pidgin to teach on Yoruba Day (Second runner-up)
Investigative Reporting
Fisayo Soyombo; The Cable – with N46, 000, I drove a ‘stolen’ car
from Abuja to Lagos and back (Winner)
Adbulaziz Abdulaziz; Premium Times – How Saraki’s National
Assembly spent N6.6 billion Adeosun largesse on exotic cars (First
runner-up)
Innocent Duru; The Nation – Failed Constituency projects rock Ekiti
Communities (Second runner-up)
Education Reporting
Cletus Ukpong; Premium Times – Learning in tears: Inside the
massive decay in public schools in oil – rich Akwa Ibom (Winner)
Afeez Hanafi; The Punch – Double trouble for visually impaired
pupils in Nigerian schools (First Runner-up)
Kofoworaola Belo-Osagie; The Nation – Out of school… Out of Touch
(Second Runner-up)
Other categories of the award include Sports Reporting, Judicial
Reporting, Nutrition Reporting, Editorial Writing, and Informed
Commentary.
In the category of Newspaper of the Year, The Punch emerged winner while The Nation and Premium Times were first and second runners-up respectively.
The Punch’s Editor, Martin Ayankola also won the Editor of the year category while The Nation’s Editor; Gbenga Omotosho and Premium Times’ Editor Muskilu Mojeed emerged first and second runners-up respectively.