A Correspondent with Punch Nigeria Limited, Mr. Kunle
Falayi, has been declared the overall winner of 2014 Promasidor Quill Awards
for journalists. Aside winning the overall award, Mr. Falayi also won two
awards at the category level, thereby making a total of three honours he smiled
home with. His entry for the Best Report on Education: Lagos school where
pupils sit on bare floor, was adjudged the best and therefore earned him the
award for that category. Falayi also paired with Isioma Madike, formerly of The
Nation, but now of New Telegraph to jointly win the Best Report on Children
award.
With his outstanding performance compared to others, the
judges considered Falayi the best of all candidates and therefore adjudged him
the overall winner.
Speaking at the awards presentation held at Eko Hotel and
Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, Chief Keith Richards, Chairman of Promasidor
Nigeria gave kudos to all journalists who submitted entries for different
categories of the awards. Apart from the high-end lap-top and the company’s
products given to the overall winner, Chief Richards disclosed that Mr. Falayi
will be sent to London for an all-expense paid four-week multi-media journalism
training course with Thomson Foundation.
Following the training in London, the Chairman said that Mr.
Falayi will be sent on a week job placement with a prominent British national
news organisation. His words: “This person will be provided with return flight,
accommodation in London, daily living allowance and tuition fees for the
training.”
The award for the Best Report on Nutrition in this year’s
Promasidor Quill Awards for journalists was won by the correspondent of the
Guardian Newspapers Limited; Mr. Gbenga Salau. He beat his counterpart from New
Telegraph, Mr. Mojeed Alabi, to clinch the award.
Similarly, Adekunle Yusuf of The Nation newspaper carted
away the award for the Best CSR & Industry Report beating Odimegwu Onwumere
of Nigerian Pilot; The Future Writer of the Year and Brand Advocate awards went
to Odogwu Obinna of The Sun, and Daniel Obi of BusinessDay; respectively. Ayodele Ojo of Daily Sun went
home with the award for theBest Photo of the Year.
Winners from all the categories with the exception of the
winner of the Best Photo Story of the Year, were given high-end laptops, while
the winner of the Best Photo Story of Year was given a high-end camera for
their excellence performance.
According to Chief Richards, all other winners, except the
overall winner, will enjoy media training at the Lagos Business School as a
means of capacity building.
Since Promasidor’s inception in Nigeria, Chief Richards
stated, we have maintained a fantastic relationship with the media. Reporters
and media organisations have helped us to penetrate every part of the country,
as we strive to make our products available to millions of Nigerians.
His words: “while we toil to build an enduring brand through
hard work and dedication to our customers, so also the media complement us with
their reportage and promotional messages of our products. The positive
engagement between the media and Promasidor has made our products very
acceptable and indeed become market leaders in their segments.”
In recognition of this, Promasidor launched the Quill Awards
in 2012 as a platform for assessing, recognizing and rewarding excellence for
outstanding journalistic work based on merit for their work and not a
self-seeking approach to get accolades. According to Chief Richards, the Quill
Awards seek to remind journalists of the importance of their role in society
and to society, the need to encourage professionalism and appreciate
outstanding work.
The panel of judges who have painstakingly gone through all
the entries to select the winners is made up of distinguished individuals and
professionals committed to media excellence. The judges include Ambassador
Patrick Dele Cole, a veteran journalist, who returns as chairman of the panel
of judges; Kadaria Ahmed, former editor of 234 Next, Joseph Okonmah, Chairman,
Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Lagos Chapter; and Reze Bonna, a
renowned celebrity photographer and Architect.
9 Comments
Congrats to dem
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ReplyDeleteIt's not easy to get an overall. Congrats to him
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