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PwC Media Excellence Awards 2023 Winners Announced
PwC has Nigeria announced the winners of its 2023 Media Excellence Awards at a virtual ceremony on Friday 6 October.
The awards, now in their eighth year, celebrate and reward excellence in business reporting in six categories: Tax & Fiscal Policy, Finance, and Capital Markets, SMEs, Business & Economy, Special Investigative, and Sustainability Reporting.
The first-place winners in each category receive a cash prize of N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira), while second and third-placed winners receive N150,000 and N50,000, respectively.
In his opening remarks at the awards ceremony, Sam Abu, Country Senior Partner, PwC Nigeria, noted:
“For a decade now, PwC Nigeria has focused attention and resources on enhancing the quality of media reporting in Nigeria as part of our corporate responsibility and societal purpose strategy. We started in 2013 with the annual Capability Enhancement Workshops for journalists and two years after we introduced the Media Excellence Awards as a platform to reward those who produce exceptional reports across all platforms in four categories namely: Business and economy reporting, Tax and fiscal policy reporting, Capital markets reporting and SME reporting.
“This year, we added two new categories to our Media Excellence Awards – Sustainability reporting and Special investigative reporting – in recognition of the importance of sustainability in all human endeavours and the advancement of investigative reporting in the country.
“Beyond just giving out the cash prizes to the winners, we hope that this award continues to motivate journalists working in Nigeria to take a greater interest in business reporting, which is key to the economic development of our country, and aim for excellence while at it. When we succeed at this, we will have fulfilled our purpose as a firm, which is to build trust in society and solve important problems.”
The winners of the 2023 PwC Media Excellence Awards are as follows:
SMEs reporting: Caleb Ojewale of Business Day for the entry, “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Winners and Losers of Nigeria’s Border Closure”
Business & Economy reporting: Ronald Adamolekun of Premium Times for the entry, “Facing High Wheat Prices, Nigerian Bakers Turn to Potato Puree”
Special Investigative reporting: David Hundeyin of West Africa Weekly for the entry, “West Africa Weekly Aviation Special”
Finance & Capital Markets reporting: Kunle Adebajo of HumAngle for the entry, “How Are Terrorists in Nigeria Funding their Violent Campaigns?”
Tax & Fiscal Policy reporting: Yahaya Nurudeen Akewushola of The International Centre for Investigative Reporting for the entry, “Maritime Bandits (Part 1 & 2)”
Sustainability reporting: Kingsley Jeremiah of The Guardian for the entry, “Feasting on the forbidden: Tales of unending wildlife, environmental crimes”.
The judges of the 2023 awards included Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of, the Presidential Fiscal Policy & Tax Reforms Committee (Head Judge); Andrew S. Nevin (Ph.D.), Research Professor and Inaugural Director, The BrainomicsVenture; Dr. Glory Edozien, Branding thought leader and LinkedIn visibility coach; and Cyril Stober, Veteran Broadcaster/Journalist, Editor, Television News Anchor & Talk Show Host of more than four decades.
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