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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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Zainab Bala of Nigeria and Bernadette Vivuya of Congo have emerged winners of the 2021 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling.
Zainab Bala, a broadcast reporter who exposed pernicious child neglect in Nigeria, and Bernadette Vivuya, a multimedia journalist who uncovered child labor in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, emerged winners of the award after a distinguished panel of judges selected the winners from among 130 applicants.
Temi Adebayo has won the International Photography Award of the British Journal of Photography (BJP) Award 2020.
His photograph captioned; ‘Hu:Man’, was selected as part of the award-winning photographs of the year 2020, which will be exhibited at the Seen Fifteen Gallery in London, UK, from April 30 to May 22, 2021.
Image Merchants Promotions (IMPR) Limited has been ranked the most creative public relations agency worldwide in the 2020 Global Creativity Index (GCI).
The ranking is confirmed by Statista, the leading provider of market and consumer data and the best statistics portal in the world.
Ayokunle Samuel Betiku has emerged overall winner of the 9th Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP 2020) with his poem ‘Beyond the Veil of Walls’.
The second-placed poem is ‘Searching through the Heavens’ by Osho Tunde while Yvonne Nezianya’s ‘Deathless Eyes’ emerged third place.
Ayokunle Samuel Betiku receives a cash prize of ₦50,000 while runners-up Osho and Nezianya receives a cash prize of ₦30,000 and ₦20,000 respectively.
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Soyombo ‘Fisayo has emerged second-place winner of the 2020 Fetisov Journalism Award in the outstanding investigative reporting category.
Soyombo ‘Fisayo, who recently founded the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), was announced winner on the 10th of February 2021.
His undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal justice system is among the 12 winning entries announced. A total of 283 works were entered from across 77 countries under four categories.
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David Hundeyin has emerged winner of the People Journalism Prize for Africa along with Hopewell Chin’ono of Zimbabwe on 11th February 2021.
Currently on self-exile, David Hundeyin was selected for his Investigative Piece that exposed the draconian regulations and pointed out potential human rights violations in the proposed Infectious Diseases Bill that was in consideration by Nigeria’s House of Representatives during the coronavirus (COVID-19) lock down.
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