NLNG celebrates media excellence, rewards journalist with N5m
05 October 2024 |
1:29 am
As part of efforts to celebrate journalistic excellence, the management of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) on Friday honoured Prisca Sam-Duru of Vanguard Newspaper with N5 million. She was celebrated for writing NLNG
As part of efforts to celebrate journalistic excellence, the management of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) on Friday honoured Prisca Sam-Duru of Vanguard Newspaper with N5 million. She was celebrated for writing NLNG stories for prizes in literature and science in the last 20 years.
The event was tagged, ‘Celebrating the voices of impact Nigeria Prizes @ 20’ NLNG General Manager, External Relation and Sustainable Development, Andy Odeh, said the award was to honour media professionals for telling the NLNG stories.
He advised journalists not to rely on press releases, but engage in in-depth reporting about issues. He disclosed the NLNG Prize for Energy reporting has also been introduced.
In her speech, the keynote speaker and former president of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE), Funke Egbemode, urged other corporate organisations to borrow a leaf from NLNG and celebrate journalists.
She described NLNG as a figure of selflessness in celebrating the voices of impact and breaking new grounds. She stated that the media have impacted greatly in Nigeria, but are not celebrated for their excellent work.
“Those who don’t know what to do with the media see us as enemies,” she said. NLNG Limited is the proud sponsor of three of the biggest and most prestigious prizes in Africa for science, literature, and literary criticism – The Nigeria Prize for Science and The Nigeria Prize for Literature, each worth USD100,000 in award money, and The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism with a N1 million cash reward.
The Nigeria Prize for Literature and The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism is aimed at bringing Nigerian authors and literary critics to public attention and celebrating literary craftsmanship in the nation.
The Nigeria Prize for Science aims at celebrating excellence in scientific breakthroughs and honours scientists from anywhere in the world that helps to find solutions to a local or ‘Nigerian’ problem as defined and advertised by the Advisory Board for the prize.
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