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Oluwaseun Otitoola, has emerged the winner of the 2017 edition of the 9mobile Photography Competition, a talent development initiative of 9mobile.
Oluwaseun Otitoola won the competition with his entry titled: “Fragment of CMS Bookshop Building”, triumphing over two other finalists – Amanda Ihemebiri – “The NestOil Tower” and Taiwo Omotosho, for “Lines Side by Side”.
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has nominated Odinaka Anudu as one of the five Africans to participate in a fully-funded investigation in Guateng.
Odinaka Anudu, a BusinessDay journalist won the Industrialisation and Development category and will be guided by John Bailey, an international and senior journalist for eNCA, a 24-hour television news broadcaster focusing on South African and African stories.
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Winners have emerged in the maiden edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) [2017].
The awards, organised by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) to honour excellence in print, online and broadcast journalism in West Africa, took place at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra, Ghana.
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Arinze Stanley, a hyper-realistic artist has emerged winner of the World’s Best Self Portrait category at the 2017 American Art Awards.
Arinze Stanley came out on top ahead of USA’s Mano Sotelo, Sweden’s Susanne Persson, Taiwan’s Lynn Chen and more.
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Njideka Akunyili-Crosby, a painter and daughter of the late Nigerian minister, Dora Akunyili, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.
Ms. Akunyili-Crosby was described by the Foundation as:
“A figurative painter whose large-scale works express the hybridity characteristic of transnational experience through choices of subject matter, materials, and techniques.”
The Fellowship, which is also referred to as the Genius Grant, awards $625,000 to artists, writers, teachers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and people from all works of life, that have shown exceptional creativity.
The grant is doled out in quarterly installments, made over a period of five years. Amongst past recipients is writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who received the grant in 2008.
The 24 recipients of the 2017 MacArthur Fellowship are:
Winners have emerged in the second edition of the PwC Media Excellence Awards 2017 held at Oriental Hotels in Lagos on October 6, 2017.
Winners of the PwC Media Excellence Awards 2017
Isaac Anyaogu, BusinessDay’s energy correspondent emerge the first prize winner in the SMEs category with his entry titled: ‘Pennies for a piece of the sun’, a story that explored how smart companies are commoditising solar and aiding small business in a country where power supply is inadequate.
Isaac Anyaogu also won the second prize in the tax category for his story titled: ‘Can Nigeria plug tax leakages in the digital economy?’, which explored the need for the tax authorities to catch up as more transactions are moving online. His story on Apapa roads, a crying shame, which took a swipe at the lack of will to fix one of the most important roads in the country, won third prize in the Business & Economy category.
Collins Nweze from Nation newspaper won the first prize in the tax reporting category. He was awarded for his story: “Taxation: Endless games…endless controversies”, a special report on the government’s new push to get the citizenry to pay their taxes and resistance from the people over claims that the government misuses tax revenues meant for societal growth.
Victor Ekwealor of Techpointng won the first prize in the Business & Economy category with his story: “Can technology help dried fish nourish the Nigerian economy?”
Nkiru Nnorum from Vanguard newspaper claimed top prize in the Capital markets category with her story: “Furore over conversion of dollar debts into equity”.
According to Uyi Akpata, PwC Nigeria country senior partner on the PwC Media Excellence Awards 2017:
“Why a professional service firm organising a media award you may ask, our purpose is to build trust in the society and the media is a partner to help achieve this objective.
We hope the award will be a motivation for journalists to improve their report and take interest in business reporting which has the capacity to improve society.”
Taiwo Oyedele PwC partner and head of tax practice said the entries this year were three times the number received last year and the quality of the entries were remarkably better.
Oyedele said that overall, PwC Nigeria received 123 entries but some of them did not meet requirement and were eliminated. It was now down to 83 entries. Business and Economy category had 45 entries, Tax category 11 entries, SMEs 12 and Capital markets received the rest of the entries.
Anyaogu, who was a second runnerup in the Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards, held in June this year, continues a tradition of BusinessDay reporters winning laurels for excellent business journalism. Anthony Osaebrown, editor, Patrick Atuanya, Caleb Ojewale, Odinaka Anudu, Teliat Sule and Chuka Uroko have all won prestigious awards on the BusinessDay platform.
The Nigerian Breweries Plc has rewarded some distinguished journalists at the 9th Edition of the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Award entitled: Agriculture, Local Sourcing and Industrial Development.
The award, which is the 9th in the series, is aimed at promoting professionalism and objective reportage of events in the country. It is also meant to reward journalists who abide by the ethics of the journalism profession in their professional practice.
All the winners of the 2017 Nigeria Golden Pen Award in all categories got an iPad and a Plaque, each.