Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, will give the keynote address at the 2017 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting.
The event is scheduled to hold on Saturday at the NECA House, Alausa, Lagos state.
Soyinka is expected to present the lifetime award for journalistic excellence to Edetaen Ojo, executive director of media rights agenda and the anti-corruption defender award to Obiageli Ezekwesili, former minister of education.
He will also do the honours of presenting the award to the WSCIJ-Nigerian Investigative Journalist of the year.
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“A team of ten judges assessed the 166 entries submitted for the 2017 award programme and came up with a shortlist of ten works,” a statement by Motunrayo Alaka, coordinator of WSCIJ, read.
“The finalists are, Ebere Ndukwu of Ripples, Ayodele Adeniran of The Guardian, Kolawole Aliu of Leadership, Soyombo Olufisayo of The Cable, Ayodele Ojo of Daily Sun, Adekunle Yusuf of The Nation, Kemi Busari of Premium Times, Chinwe Agbeze of BusinessDay, Ujorha Tadaferua of Daily Trust and Mojeed Alabi of New Telegraph.
“The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism alongside other civil society partners will also be using the occasion of the award event to make a statement calling the attention of the government to the need to urgently reform the country’s armed forces in order to put an end to the brutality now regularly meted out to Nigerians, especially youths, by men in uniform.”
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The Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting has been focused on investigative journalism in Nigeria since 2005.
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