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| Tunde Ajaja, winner, Future Writer of the Year (m); receiving his award from Judy Okolo, Senior Manager, Promasidor Nigeria Limited (l); and Martins Oloja, former Editor/member Editorial Board, Guardian newspapers; at the 2016 Promasidor Quill Awards event held at Sheraton Lagos Hotel on Friday |
The much celebrated Promasidor Quill
Awards Season 4 came to an end on Friday when a correspondent with Guardian
Newspapers Limited, Ajibola Amzat was declared the overall winner at the event
held at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. The new title holder,
Amzat, took over from Taiwo Alimi, the overall winner for the 2014-2015
edition.
Apart from the plaque, high-end iPad and
the company’s products given to the overall winner, Amzat will also be sent to
London, as part of the prize for the award, for an all-expense paid four-week
multi-media journalism training course with Thomson Foundation.
Aside
winning the overall trophy, Amzat also clinched the Category award for the Best
Report on Children and Nutrition, thereby making a total of two awards he
smiled home with. Amzat won the two awards with the entry he submitted for the
Best Report on Children and Nutrition, Home
Away. In that category, entries submitted by other nominees: Olatunji
Ololade of The Nation, I Do Not Want This
Child; and Isioma Madike of Sunday Telegraph, Hunger and The Nigerian Child; could not defeat that of Amzat.
Other
awardees at the event include Olatunji Ololade of The Nation, who won the award
for the Best CSR and Industry Report of the Year; Tobi Aworinde of The Punch,
the Education Reporter of the Year; and Nurain Kolawole Aliu of Leadership, the
Best Photo Story of the Year.
Similarly,
Tunde Ajaja of The Punch coasted home the award for the Future Writer of the
Year; Daphne Uduneje of Nigerian Pilot, Brand Advocate of the Year and Kemi
Busari of Thevendornews.com, Best Online Reporter of the Year.
Ololade’s
entry for the Best CSR and Industry Report Category: Sorrowful Song from the Valley of Iva, was also adjudged
outstanding compared to Folashade Adebayo’s Abandoned
Projects Force Nigerians to Drink Unsafe Water, published by The Punch and Seun
Akioye’s A Nation’s Endangered Treasure:
800 Year-Old Nasarawa Salt Mine at Risk of Extinction (The Nation).
Commenting
on the awards, Olivier Thiry, Managing Director, Promasidor Nigeria Limited,
makers of Cowbell, Onga, Toptea and Loya Milk and organisers of the prestigious
Promasidor Quill awards, commended all journalists who submitted entries for
different categories of the awards.
According
to him, if the intellectual
exertion and the skill required in producing a good report or story is put in
perspective, there is no reward that can adequately compensate the effort of
journalists in educating the public. His words: “Based on this realisation of
the important role of the media in our economy, the management of Promasidor
Nigeria in 2012 conceptualized Promasidor Quill Awards with the ultimate goal
of assessing, recognizing and rewarding excellence for outstanding journalistic
work.”
Apart
from the plaques, high-end iPads and the company’s products given to the
overall winner, Thiry disclosed that Amzat will be sent to London for an
all-expense paid four-week multi-media journalism training course with Thomson
Foundation. Thiry added that the overall winner will also be placed on a week’s
job placement with a prominent British national news organization before
returning to Nigeria. His words: “This person will be provided with a return
flight ticket, accommodation in London, daily living allowance and tuition fees
for the training.”
Winners
from all the categories with the exception of the winner of the Best Photo
Story of the Year, were given iPads, while the winner of the Best Photo Story
of Year was given a high-end camera for his exceptional performance. |
| Martins Oloja, former Editor/member Editorial Board, Guardian newspapers congratulating Ajibola Amzat, who was declared overall winner; with Olivier Thiry, Managing Director, Promasidor Nigeria Limited; at the 2016 Promasidor Quill Awards event held at Sheraton Lagos Hotel on Friday. |
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| (L-R) Olivier Thiry, Managing Director, Promasidor Nigeria Limited; Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole, Chairman, Panel of Judges; Ajibola Amzat, overall winner; and Martins Oloja, former Editor/member Editorial Board, Guardian newspapers; at the 2016 Promasidor Quill Awards event held at Sheraton Lagos Hotel on Friday. |
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