Daily Trust, Trust TV journalists win Wole Soyinka investigative reporting awards

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Daily Trust, Trust TV journalists win Wole Soyinka investigative reporting awards

Daily Trust and Trust TV journalists, Lami Sadiq and Aaron Atsahyel, have emerged winners of both the print and television categories of the 2024 Wole Soyinka Investigative Journalism Awards.
It is the most prestigious investigative journalism award in Nigeria.
Lami won the print category for the second time in a row, having won in 2023.
She won the 2024 award in the print category based on the story, ‘Inside Abuja’s Kidney ‘market’ where the rich prey on the poor’.

Lami also emerged as the runner-up in the television category with the same story, while Aaron Atsahyel emerged as the winner in the television category, based on his documentary ‘Stolen Innocence; Nabeeha’s Tragic Abduction.’

The runner-up in the print category was Ann Godwin of The Guardian newspaper while Segun Odunayo of Punch newspaper came third.

In the online category, Mansir Ibrahim and Jemilat Nasiru won the overall best award with their story ‘Living on borrowed time: How Nigeria’s unchecked e-waste is poisoning residents, environment’. The runner-up was Daniel Ojukowu of the ICIR while Umar Audu of Daily Nigerian finished third.

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Lami Sadiq with Aaron Atsahel, winners of Print and TV categories of the 19th Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting

In the Photo category, Olukayode Jaiyeola of the Punch newspaper emerged as the overall winner while Elliot Ovadje of the same Punch newspaper finished as  runners-up and in third position.

There was however no overall winner of the 19th Wole Soyinka Investigative Journalism Awards due to the inability of the entries to make the required points.

On the honorary award, late Beko Ransome-Kuti received the Human Rights Defender Award while Professor Chinyere Okunna bagged the Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence.

Earlier before the awards presentation, the Chair 2024 Judge, Stella Din-Jacob revealed that 191 entries were submitted, but lamented that there was low entries from female journalists, as only “45 of them were female representing 24.9 percent and 118 were male journalists representing 74.5 percent.”

She urged media outfits to focus on training, and decried the gradual decline in investigative reporting.

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