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Soyombo Fisayo has received an honorable mention in the 2020 Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism.

Soyombo Fisayo is an investigative journalist and former Editor of the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR).

Announcing winners of the award in Washington, D.C. on 2nd of June 2020, the World Justice Project (WJP) listed Soyombo among three individual journalists and three reporting teams “in recognition of their extraordinary reporting on rule of law issues”.

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Chigozie Obioma has won the 2020 Internationaler Literaturpreis award by Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Germany.

The Nigerian writer and author won the award through the German translation of his second novel, titled: An Orchestra of Minorities.

His co-winner is Haitian writer James Noel.

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Winners have emerged at the 2020 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards championed by Continental Re Plc – its fifth year awards.

The winners were announced on May 27 [2020], at a virtual awards ceremony following travel restrictions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards ceremony was scheduled to take place during the Continental Re’s 7th CEO Summit in Morocco, but for the pandemic.

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Innocent Chizaram Ilo has emerged the regional winner for Africa of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story “When a Woman Renounces Motherhood.”

23-year-old Innocent Chizaram Ilo is the youngest writer to be awarded the Africa region prize since its establishment in 2012.

He joins an illustrious line of Nigerian literary figures like Jekwu Anyaegbun who won with the entry, ‘Morrison Okoli’ in 2012; Lesley Armah who won with ‘Light’ in 2016; Akwaeke Emezi who won with ‘Who is like God’ in 2017 and Efua Traoré, with ‘True Happiness’ in 2018.

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Pemi Aguda has emerged winner of the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for The Suicide Mothers, a work of fiction.

Ian Rankin OBE (Chair of the Judges) introduced the shortlisted authors and then announced the winner who will receive the prize of £10,000.

In second place was Stephen Buoro for The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa and in third place S. Bhattacharya-Woodward for Zolo and Other Stories. Both titles are works of fiction.  The authors will each receive £1,000.

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Amos Abba, an oil and gas reporter at the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) has received a Fetisov journalism award in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Amos Abba, alongside 39 journalists from 21 countries were shortlisted in four different categories, including; Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Contribution to Civil Rights, and Outstanding Contribution to Peace, in November [2019].

The winners of the different categories were announced at the Fetisov Journalism Awards ceremony, with Abba emerging as 3rd place in the Excellence in Environmental Journalism category, for his report on  How Nestle Nigeria contaminates water supply of its host community in Abuja, which was published in April, 2019.

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27-year-old Jessica Nwalozie, a fashion designer and freelance fashion illustrator has emerged the winner of the Vlisco Fashion Fund 2019 in Nigeria.

The Vlisco Fashion Fund is a contest that launches emerging African fashion designers and their businesses based in Nigeria, DRC Congo, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast and Ghana, on a global scale.

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