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Professor Tanure Ojaide and Uganda’s Harriet Arena have been announced as the joint winners of 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature.
Servio Gbadamosi, a doctoral candidate in the cultural and media studies program at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, was the runner-up. He was shortlisted for his ‘A Tributary in Servitude’.
The winners were announced at a ceremony held at the Muson Center, Onikan, Lagos.
Winners have emerged at the 13th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (WSAIR) held at NECA House, Alausa, Lagos.
The Wole Soyinka Award For Investigative Reporting (WSAIR), organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), is held annually in commemoration of December 9 – the World Anticorruption Day and eve of the Human Rights Day – to call attention to the significance of the media generally and investigative reporting in particular, to attaining good governance, accountability and social justice.
The winners, runners-up and commended works got cash prizes of ₦200,000, ₦100,000 and ₦50,000 respectively, plus a certificate of commendation. In addition, winners got award plaques, and will proceed on an all-expense-paid international study tour in 2019.
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Winners have emerged at the Akwa Ibom State Council Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Awards 2018 held in Uyo where prizes were given out to journalists for their professional works for the year 2018.
Cletus Ukpong, an assistant editor with PREMIUM TIMES who covers Nigeria’s South-south for the newspaper, won the Major Alexander Akpabio Ukut’s Investigative Reporter/Journalist of the Year for his investigative series on the decay of public schools in Akwa Ibom State.
He received a plaque, cash, and a gift from the NUJ.
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Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, has won the New Hampshire Institute of Art 2018 Writing Award: Narratives in Prose, Poetry.
As the winner, Mr. Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto wins a $100 prize money and and $5,000 worth of scholarship to study MFA in New Hampshire.
The NHIA writing programme is centred on the idea of deeply examining stories that effectively communicate an idea in any genre.
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Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto has been declared the overall first winner in the 2018 Castillo di Duino Poesia Prize, Italy with a reward of €500.
He graduated from the department of English language, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
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Said Saad Abubakar has emerged the overall winner of the 2018 edition of Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) Annual Film Essay Competition in Jos, Plateau State.
The winners are Said Saad Abubakar (first), Ike-Okonkwo Adaobi (second) and Ogbaga Sunday Thomas (third) and have won cash prizes of ₦250,000, ₦100,000, and ₦75,000 respectively.
The topic for the 2018 Nigerian Film Corporation Essay Competition was “Projecting Nigeria’s Values as A Great Nation through Film”. Submission of entries opened on May 2 and closed on August 30, 2018.
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Winners have emerged in the 2018 NNPC/CNL Joint Venture National Art Competition for Nigerian Secondary Schools with the theme “The Nigeria of my Dream”.
The NNPC/CNL Joint Venture National Art Competition encourages junior and senior secondary school students across the country to proffer solutions to some of the problems confronting the country through their paintings/drawings.
The beautiful and interesting art works of the 10 finalists in each category, which were displayed at the grand finale in Lagos, showed that the students are aware of the current challenges and are hopeful of a better future for the country.
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