Ibanga Isine,
regional editor, south, was named winner of the News Impact category of
the awards on a night that saw three other Nigerians clinching top
honours to make their country proud.
Mr. Isine had
joined 30 other finalists from 15 countries across Africa for an
all-expense paid four-day programme of workshops, media forums and
networking in Nairobi. Mr. Isine, a dogged investigative journalist, won
the award for his courageous and persistent reporting on the brutal
killings by soldiers at the Dangote Cement Factory in Benue state. The
factory belonged to Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote.
That series of work, which instantly got justice for families of those killed, had earlier earned Mr. Isine an award at the 2014 edition of the prestigious Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Journalism.
Also at the ceremony in
Kenya, two reporters from THE PUNCH, Femi Asu and Urukaino Umukoro won
in the economic/business and sport reporting categories of the award
respectively while Adewale Emosu of the Nigerian Tribune clinched the
top prize in the culture reporting category. Another Nigerian, Kola
Tubosun - a blogger at ktravula.com - was also nominated for the awards
and was at the finalist programme.
Credit: punchng.com, tribuneonlineng.com, premiumtimesng.com, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
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