Oloja, Olorunyomi, others shine at DAME Awards

It was celebration of outstanding excellence at the 26th Diamond Awards Media Execllence (DAME), as The Guardian’s celebrated columnist, Mr. Martins Oloja won The Hadj. Alade Odunewu Prize for Informed Commentary. With The title ‘Why we need better Universities, not more of The Guardian, June 4 2016.’ he was nominated alongside Henry Boyo of Punch Newspaper.
 
Similarly, Editor in Chief Premium Times, Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
 
In his address, Supervising Trustee of DAME, Mr. LanreIdowu, noted, “No one should accuse our journalists of lack of patriotism. We witnessed abundant enthusiasm in the entries received for a better Nigeria. We were confronted with the reality that a lot remains to be done to make our media the leader it should be. We saw confusion on the part of our journalists who mistake depth of research for length of reports. We noticed enthusiasm sometimes beclouding news reporting where detachment was recommended.

Punch also won The Tunde Oseni Memorial Prize for Editorial Writing, Toluwani Eniola and Umar Mohammed of Punch won The Sam Amaka Prize for Investigative Reporting, Punch also emerged Newspaper of The Year, while Mr. Martin Ayankola of Punch emerged the Editor of the Year.