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Abdul-Qudus Ibrahim has emerged the overall winner of the 2018 Beeta Playwright Competition with his winning play titled: “Jagagba”.
Out of 348 entries and 10 finalists, Abdul-Qudus Ibrahim was selected and receives a reward of ₦1 million cash prize.
The grand finale of the second edition of Beeta Playwright Competition held on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos.
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Winners have emerged at the 2019 Youth Digest Campus Journalism Awards organised to celebrate campus journalists across Nigeria.
The second edition of the awards, which received 241 entries out of which 30 finalists emerged, was organised by Youth Digest magazine in partnership with CISLAC and supported by Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
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University of Lagos (UNILAG) becomes the first Nigerian campus to own a television station when UNILAG TV commenced airing operation on the 17th of January, 2019. The same university pioneered campus radio broadcast with Radio Unilag 103.1 FM in December 2004.
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Winners have emerged at the 2018 Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA), held at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos.
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Artistry Media, which consists of Baridakara Nwilene, Alfa Faruk Umar and Joshua Tostso, has won a $5,000 film project grant from the Lagos Film Academy.
The three young and aspiring filmmakers were selected by the Lagos Film Academy for the grant in the third Film for Life competition.
The three members of Artistry Media will have the opportunity to make a short film directed at impacting social change with focus on the upcoming 2019 general elections in Nigeria.
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For the 2018 edition of the 9Mobile Photography Competition, with the theme, “9ja: My Grind, My Hustle”, Christiana Obafemi has emerged as the winner with her image titled, “My Passion, My Strength.”
At the prize presentation, which was held recently at Banana Island, Ikoyi, Christiana Obafemi receives a canon camera for her emergence at the prize presentation ceremony in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Bambi Daniel and Ayodeji Ogunro emerged as first and second runners-up with their images titled; “Female Barber” and “The Wind” respectively.
The winner of the ‘Voters’ Choice’ category is David Gideon, for his work titled; “A Woman.” The ‘Voters’ Choice’ category was selected through a two-week online public vote which was opened to photography enthusiasts from November 5 to 19, 2018.
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Femi Odugbemi has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award by the Nigerian Film Corporation under the auspices of Nigeria Film Society.
Femi Odugbemi was presented with the award at the Zuma Film Festival, which held in Abuja.
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