SaharaReporters Wins Biggest Prizes At 2020 Wole Soyinka Awards For Investigative Journalism
The three-part story highlighted the corruption in the Nigerian criminal justice system. It exposed the collaboration of stakeholders like the police, particularly the anti-cultism squad based in Gbagada-Lagos, the court officials, lawyers and prison officials.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 17, 2020
Reporters from SaharaReporters won the biggest prizes at the 2020 Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Journalism on December 9 in Lagos.
Damilola Banjo, who reported for SaharaReporters before joining the BBC, won the award for the best investigative reporter of the year with her Justice For Sale published by SaharaReporters in March.
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Premium Times journalist, seven others shine at Nigeria investigative journalism awards
A total of eight journalists got awards on Wednesday, picked from 188 entries.
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PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Taiwo-Hassan Adebayo, and seven others were honoured for their works at the 15th award ceremony of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in Lagos on Wednesday.
The centre annually honours journalists who use investigative stories to amplify the voice of the most vulnerable in Nigeria.
Only eight journalists got awards on Wednesday, picked from 188 entries.
PREMIUM TIMES, Punch and The Sun Newspapers also received awards for the best investigative media of the year.
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The PUNCH, has won the Best Investigative Media Organisation Award at the 15th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting.
The award, which was held at the NECA House, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, was themed, ‘Masked but not silenced.’
Online news medium,
A senior correspondent of
The PUNCH, Samson Folarin, was also adjudged winner of the print category of the award, clinching the prize for the second year in a roll.
Folarin’s series on the certificate scandal at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, which ran for over seven months, was voted winner of the category.