Aviation Editor, New Telegraph Newspapers, Wole Shadare has been named Aviation Writer of The Year at the 10th edition of the Nigeria Media Nite-Out Awards (NMNA) 2016.
At the award ceremony held on Sunday at Time Square Event Centre in Ikeja, Lagos,
and attended by corporate industry players, state governors who were
represented by their aides, journalists, the award-winners and their
colleagues, Shadare was announced Aviation Writer of the Year ahead of Comfort
Oseghale (Punch), Olusegun Koiki (Mirror), Loius Ibah (Sun) and Kelvin Osa
Okunbor of The Nation.
Speaking at the event,
founder of NMNA, Sola Olagbemiro, said the NMNA is a child born out of the
necessity to recognise excellence, distinction and achievements by media
practitioners in virtually all the major categories and sub-sectors.
He further stated that
if members of the fourth estate of the realm could go out of the way to fish
out and recognise individuals in other sectors of the economy, “Why then can’t
we, the veritable source of gauging achievement and excellence in the society,
do same to ourselves.”
Olagbemiro said it is
for this sole reason the NMNA launched out ten years ago to fill this yawning
gap.
He advised the awardees
not to rest on their oars because henceforth, the beam- light would be trained
on them to assess whether they truly and meritoriously deserve the awards or
not, adding that it is left to them to prove the organisers right for selecting
them out of a handful of their colleagues.
A member of the
jury revealed that the criteria for selecting the rewarded journalists
were originality, accuracy, fairness in reporting, objectivity, depth of
writing, conformity with ethics of the profession, currency of the report and
the social responsibility.
Best Television Station
of the Year went to Television Continental (TVC), while Best Radio Programme of
the Year was won by Radio Continental with its programme Kubanji Direct.
On Air Personality of
the Year Award went to Joshua Morakinyo of Silverbird Television while On Air
Personality of The Year (Radio) was won by Olayemi Ogunwole of Radio
Continental.
Other awardees were
Maureen Ihua Maduenyi of Punch Newspapers who won in the Business Writer of the
Year category. Oladeru Emmanuel of The Nation came top in the Writer of the
Year (Politics) category, while photo journalist of the year award went to
Akeem Salau of Vanguard Newspapers.
Ikem Okuhu of Brandish
won Brand Writer of the year award; Society Writer of The Year Award went to
Juliet Ebirim of Vanguard, Kunle Akinriade of The Nation won Crime Writer of
the Year award while Tade Asfat won Editor of the Year (Soft Sell).
Receiving his award,
Wole Shadare dedicated it to his family, New Telegraph for providing him the
platform to win the award and to the families of ‘Chibok girls’.
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