The Wole Soyinka
Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) will tomorrow honour the
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), headed by Mr. Tokunbo
Mumuni and Mr 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 will commence
at 5pm prompt with a drama presentation of excerpts of Wole Soyinka’s ‘The
Beatification of Area Boy’, on Tuesday 9 December – the international day
for anti-corruption and the eve of the world human rights day, 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
VinMartin Ilo grant for the best work in the broadcast category.
Some confirmed guests
expected at the event include Mrs Ifeyinwa Omowale, President of the National
Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ); Mr Ademola Adesina, President of the
Nigerian Guild of Editors; Mr Michel Deelen , Deputy Head of Mission, Kingdom
of Netherlands in Nigeria; Mr Simon Shercliff – British
Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria; Mr Innocent Chukwuma, West African
Representative of the Ford Foundation; and Ms Toyin Adewale-Gabriel,
Media Expert, UNDP Democratic Governance for Development Project.
Mr 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.
Attendance
to the award presentation ceremony is open to members of the public.
ABOUT THE WOLE
SOYINKA AWARD FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Wole Soyinka
Award for Investigative Reporting was first held in October, 2005 to encourage
the development of an investigative tradition in the Nigerian media through
rigorous scrutiny of human rights violations, regulatory failures and
corruption in the public and corporate sectors of the nation’s life. It has so
far rewarded 65 finalists out of which there are 36 ‘Soyinka Laureates’ and 29
runners-up. It has also honoured 4 investigative journalists of the year and 12
honorary awards recipients.
ABOUT THE WOLE
SOYINKA CENTRE FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
The Wole Soyinka
Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) is a non-governmental organisation
with a vision to stimulate the emergence of a socially just community defined
by the ethics of inclusion, transparency and accountability through support to
journalists. Initially known as the Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Award
(WSIRA), the change in name became necessary in 2008 to reflect the intentions
of the coordinators to embrace a more robust line of activities that have
greater capacity for engendering the right values of investigative journalism
in the Nigerian media. The Centre is named after Professor Wole Soyinka in
recognition of his life-long work in support of the freedom of expression,
freedom to hold opinion, and freedom to impart them without fear or favour and
without hindrance or interference.
Signed:
Motunrayo Alaka
Centre Coordinator
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