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Olufisayo Babatunde Soyombo has emerged merit award winner of the 2019 Karpoor Chandra Kulish International Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Olufisayo Babatunde Soyombo known professionally as Fisayo Soyombo is the Founder/Editor of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ).
Anita Abada’s ‘Efun’ has emerged winner of the Special Prize Award For “Health Educational Film For Youth” at the 2021 WHO Health For All Film Festival.
WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the announcement in his speech posted on the UN health agency website.
Ghebreyesus said Abada became winner of the special prize for a health educational film for youth, titled: “Efun”.
The DG said “Efun”, directed by Abada, focused on the challenging topic of Female Genital Mutilation.
Ghebreyesus, said the winners would receive trophies and a grant of $10,000 to invest in further audiovisual production on health today.
Dr. Charles Iornumbe has emerged the second place winner at the 2021 African Human Rights Essay Competition.
The African Human Rights Essay Competition is an initiative of the International Human Rights Art Festival IHRAF, USA aimed at promoting human rights values in the entire African continent.
Othuke Umokoro has emerged winner of the 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize with his poem titled “A Mountain Cracks Before Translation”.
The £3,000 prize winner, Othuke Umokoro, is a poet and playwright who studied playwriting at the University of Ibadan and teaches literature to high school students.
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Eight Nigerians have been selected into the African #YouTubeBlackVoices Creator Class of 2021.
According to Youtube on the inaugural #YouTubeBlackVoices Creator Class:
“We’re excited to spotlight Black creatives and to continue to center both their voices and perspectives. As part of that mission, we developed the #YouTubeBlackVoices grant program — an initiative dedicated to investing in Black creators and artists, and equipping them with the resources to succeed on our platform. This grant program is part of our larger #YouTubeBlackVoices Fund, a global, multi-year commitment to empower Black creators and artists on our platform, as well as to produce and acquire new YouTube Original programs, focusing on racial justice and Black experiences.
After many months of collaboration, we’re excited to introduce you to our inaugural class of #YouTubeBlackVoices creator grantees from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, who are part of our 132 creators from across the world who are participating in the Class of 2021.
In the coming months, we will work closely with the Class of 2021. This will include dedicated partner support, seed funding invested into the development of their channels, and participation in an intensive development program that will focus on training in production, community engagement and wellbeing, followed by ongoing workshops and networking programs.”
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Ayodele Oluwafemi, Taiwo Adebulu, Vivian Chime and three other journalists have emerged Report for the World inaugural reporting corps [2021-2022].
Three corps members will join the staff at TheCable in Nigeria and three will join Scroll.in in India.
Report for the World launched in February and has been working with its newsroom partners, TheCable and Scroll.in, to select these talented local journalists. The application process was highly competitive, with over 335 applicants, but only six spots available. The corps members, who are full-time employees of the newsrooms for up to three years, are:
Tobore Ovuorie has won the Deutsche Welle (DW) Freedom of Speech Award 2021 for her undercover investigative report on criminal syndicates involved in prostitution, human traffickers and organ trading in Nigeria.
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