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GODWIN Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, three ministers and Innoson Chukwuma, chairman of Innoson Group, will be among eminent persons and institutions to be honoured at the 5th anniversary and annual leadership awards programme of Verbatim News Magazine scheduled for Thursday, April 6 at Sheraton Hotel in Abuja.
Other personalities lined up for award in the historic ceremony to be chaired by. Jerry Ugokwe, include chairman of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, Kefas Magaji, former clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Mekasuwa, former Governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu and four Senators, Abu Ibrahim from Katsina, Andy Uba from Anambra, Binta Masi from Adamawa and Wamakko from Sokoto state.
The management of Verbatim Magazine said in press statement signed by Tobs Agbaegbu, editor-in-chief that the award winners, also including three governors, some heads of federal government agencies, private sector operators and heads of diplomatic missions in Nigeria will be decorated at an evening of investiture ceremony which will be heralded with a public lecture on “Media, Democracy and National Development”. There will also be the unveiling of a sister publication, called Verbatim Profiles, which will strictly focus on the positive side of people and institutions.
The Abuja-based investigative news magazine set up five years ago by a group of editors and managers from Newswatch also hinted of plans to raise an endowment fund, in memory of Onukaba Adinoyi Ojo, former managing director of Daily Times Newspaper who died recently after attending the President Olusegun Obasanjo Library launch programme in Ogun State.
The media outfit explained that it will also institute other endowments, including one in memory of Dele Giwa, late editor-in-chief of Newswatch and that the essence of the endowments will be to promote the practice of investigative journalism and encourage excellence in reportage and coverage of various beats in the profession, especially in politics/election reporting, crime/judiciary/human rights, oil and gas, business, banking and finance, health, agriculture, the parliament and stock market.
Agbaegbu explained that ”the overall purpose of the anniversary programme is to celebrate the news magazine’s five years of excellence in robust practice of investigative, vibrant, responsive and responsible journalism since it hit the newsstands in 2012 and to thank Nigerians, individually and collectively, for making Verbatim, a star brand in just five years”.
— Mar 23, 2017 @ 17:50 GMT
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