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Winners will emerge from the 12 journalists the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism shortlisted for award in investigative journalism on December 9
| By Anayo Ezugwu | Dec 14, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT |
IN celebration of its tenth anniversary, Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting has shortlisted twelve journalists for the 2015 edition of the award. The shortlist includes Fisayo Soyombo, The Cable, Adekunle Yusuf, The Nation, Chukwuemeka Emenike, The New Telegraph, and Sumner Sambo of Television Continental.
Others are Joel Motunrayo, and Adedayo Odusanya, The Punch, Ikechukwu Ibe, The Daily Trust, Emmanuel Ogala and Bassey Udo, Premium Times, Ayodele Ojo, The Sun, Asukwo Bassey, Business Day and Kikelomo Abosede Ifekoya, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN.
The winning stories were selected out of a total of one-hundred and thirty entries by a panel of judges chaired by Bimbo Oloyede, veteran broadcaster. Other members of the panel include Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, a lecturer at the Mass Communication Department of the University of Lagos; Umaru Pate, a professor of Mass Communication at the University of Maiduguri; Boye Ola, a lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ; Theophilus Abbah, editor of Sunday Trust; Gbile Oshadipe, a lecturer at the NIJ; Lai Oso, dean of the Lagos State University School of Communications and Gbemiga Ogunleye, Provost, NIJ.
The award presentation ceremony where winners will be unveiled will hold at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, the same venue where the maiden edition of the award event held in 2005, on Wednesday, December 9, 2015.
The anniversary will be attended by Attahiru Jega, former chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and Bimbo Oloyede, veteran broadcaster. Oloyede will be honoured with the Anti-Corruption Defender Award and the Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence, respectively.
As part of the tenth year anniversary and in commemoration of the human rights day, as well as the ‘orange the world’ sixteen-day campaign to end every form of violence against girls and women, the WSCIJ will also host a public viewing of its documentary, ‘Report Women: The Untold Stories of Girls and Women in Nigeria’ on Thursday, December 10, by 12:30pm at the Silver Bird Galleria in the Ikeja Mall, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. The 2015 award presentation event will this year have Soyinka give the keynote remark.
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation with social justice programmes aimed at exposing corruption, regulatory failures and human rights abuses with the tool of investigative journalism.
The initiative started in 2005 under the name Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award, WSIRA. It operated as an award-giving organisation till 2008 when it took on the name Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ. The change in name became necessary to reflect the intention of the coordinators to embrace a more robust line of activities; such that have greater capacity for engendering the appropriate values of investigative journalism in the Nigerian media environment.
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