PREMIUM TIMES’ journalist wins at WAMECA

A PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Oladeinde Olawoyin, has emerged because the winner of the Enterprise Class of the West African Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA).

Mr Olawoyin clinched the award on the sixth version of the award ceremony held in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday.

The assistant editor and deputy head of PREMIUM TIMES’ enterprise desk, gained the award for his story – Contained in the world of small companies preserving Lagos evening financial system alive.

The organisers of the regional awards, Media Basis for West Africa, had in July introduced that 950 entries had been obtained.

“Among the many 950 entries obtained for 10 totally different classes embrace Human Rights, Investigations, Anti-Corruption, Well being reporting and the 2 new classes, Girls Empowerment, and Migration reporting, which had been launched for the Awards this yr,” Kwaku Asante, Programme Officer, MFWA, stated.

Mr Olawoyin was unveiled as one of many winners of the ten classes.

The story printed in 2021, touched on how Lagos, a top-night financial system hotspot, is hampered by poor infrastructure.

A former PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Yusuf Akinpelu, additionally emerged a finalist within the atmosphere class, gained by Tessy Igomu.

Olatunji Ololade from The Nation newspaper gained the Human rights class, Tessy Igomu from Punch newspaper gained the environmental class in addition to the general prize whereas the Anti-Corruption reporting class was gained by a contract journalist, Adeola Oladipupo.

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Different winners embrace Burkina Faso journalists; Nabole Ismael and Basseratou Kindo, Ghanaian journalists; Kwatey Nartey and Seth Boateng, and Guinea Bissau’s Darcico Barbosa.

Profile

Mr Olawoyin’s work at PREMIUM TIMES focuses on points round vitality, enterprise, financial system and growth. He’s a a number of award-winning journalist who has been nominated for and gained a number of awards and fellowships.

He’s a First Class graduate of Mass Communication from the College of Ilorin the place he graduated because the division’s greatest scholar.

In 2017, he was nominated within the journalism class of The Future Awards Africa, held in Lagos.

In 2018, he was a recipient of the West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA), held in Ghana; in addition to the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Awards, held in Lagos.

In December 2018, alongside different younger journalists throughout Africa, he was named “World Goalkeeper” by the Gates Basis at an elaborate ceremony in South Africa, in recognition of his reporting of the worldwide objectives.

In October 2019, he was amongst 12 finalists from world wide shortlisted for the 2019 Thomson Basis Younger Journalist Award. He additionally clinched the massive prize because the 2019 Capital Market Reporter of the 12 months on the PwC Awards for Excellence in Monetary Journalism.

In 2020, he was amongst finalists chosen from throughout Africa on the Sanlam Award for Excellence in Monetary Journalism ceremony, held in South Africa. In December 2019, he was additionally amongst three winners of the African Media Growth Basis (AMDF) Awards, held in Kaduna.

Mr Oladeinde is a 2018 recipient of the distinguished Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (WSAIR), a 2018 fellow of the Pure Useful resource Governance Institute (NRGI), in addition to a 2019 fellow of the African Science Literacy Community (ASLN).

Final July, he was chosen for the Local weather Tracker’s Investigative Journalism Fellowship alongside 11 different journalists from totally different elements of Africa.

This January, Mr Oladeinde was chosen as a Fellow within the ‘In The Title of Faith’ fellowship, an initiative that seeks to equip a community of trail-blazing African journalists with superior digital expertise and knowledge journalism instruments to enhance the standard, amount, and attain of goal fact-driven reporting on spiritual freedom points, in ways in which promote a tradition of tolerance and respect for spiritual variety.

The programme, an initiative of the Worldwide Heart for Journalists (ICFJ), focuses on spiritual freedom in Nigeria and Sudan.

Mr Olawoyin was additionally a finalist within the PwC 2022 awards, held two weeks in the past in Lagos.