The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, will on Tuesday, December 9 honour the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, headed by Tokunbo Mumuni and Ademola Osinubi, Managing Director of The Punch Newspapers with its honorary Anti-corruption defender award and lifetime award for journalistic excellence respectively.
These as well as merit awards will be presented at the award ceremony.
The event which will commence at 5pm prompt with a drama presentation of excerpts of Wole Soyinka’s ‘The Beatification of Area Boy’, will hold at the NECA main hall, adjacent Afrika shrine, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.
Apart from the regular award categories, this year will see the WSCIJ in partnership with the Netherlands Embassy give an award to the best work highlighting the plight of girls and women in the report women category as well as present the Vin Martin Ilo grant for the best work in the broadcast category.
Some confirmed guests expected at the event include, Ifeyinwa Omowale, President of the National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ; Femi Adesina, President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors; Michel Deelen, Deputy Head of Mission, Kingdom of Netherlands in Nigeria; Simon Shercliff, British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria; Innocent Chukwuma, West African Representative of the Ford Foundation; and Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Media Expert, UNDP Democratic Governance for Development Project.
Deji Haastrup, the General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Chevron, will be the Compere at the ceremony which will see winners, runners up and commended works unveiled for the 2014 edition of the award programme.
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