The New Telegraph cartoonist, Chukwuemeka
Emenike, on Saturday at the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME),
clinched the coveted cartoonist category award for the year 2015, beating The
Sun and The Guardian Newspapers.
The New Telegraph, on the same Saturday, won the Best Health Reporting Newspaper of the
Year 2015. The organiser of the award is the Chartered Institute of
Environmental and Public Health Management of Nigeria (CIEPHM).
New Telegraph entered only four entries in the DAME, but two of
those were nominated. Emenike was nominated for cartoonist category, while
Juliana Francis was nominated for Judicial Reporter of the Year. Francis was
first runner up in the said category.
The New Telegraph is just a year old and one
of the fastest growing newspapers in Nigeria. The CIEPHM award was presented to New Telegraph in Lagos.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony at the CIEPHM’s 2015 Annual
National Conference on Environmental Health Management, the Director
General/Chief Executive of CIEPHM, Prince George Ayoade said that the CIEPHM
recommended 12 companies for the awards in 2015.
Revealing why New Telegraph won
the coveted category, Ayoade said that “the newspapers’ in-depth reportorial of
the health sector; graphic illustration of facts and figures; and timely
reportage of information concerning the health sector’ were among the
indicators that made them the darling of Nigerians.
Other outstanding factors that stood the paper out are its reports
on new findings and research in the health sector, awareness reports, reports
on preventing harmful living practices, among others.
Ayoade said CIEPHM, through its technical committee conducted a
research, speaking with people to access stories on the health pages of 12
selected newspapers that were included in the research.
The committee after reviewing the reports concluded that the reports
in the New Telegraph would help the
public in terms of health guide.
Other companies which the CIEPHM awarded for outstanding performances
in health are; Debour Nigeria Limited, Best Environment-Compliant Construction/Engineering
Company of the Year, MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, Best Environment-Compliant Oil &
Gas Company of the Year, JIMSIF Limited,
Best Environment-Compliant Waste Managers of the Year, Standard Purity
Enterprises, Best Health –Compliant Waste Managers of the Year.
The Nigerian Tribune won Best Environment Reporting Newspaper of
the Year. Silverbird Television won Best Environmental Reporting TV Station of
the Year.
In the DAME awards held at Sheraton
Hotels, Ikeja, Punch newspaper emerged newspaper of the year. The paper also
clinched the award for Editor of the Year, plus Prize for Editorial Writing and
Insurance Reporting of the Year.
The Nation newspaper was second
biggest winner in the print category with awards like Prize for Informed
Commentary, Health Reporting and Judicial Reporting. TVC News reporters won the
Television Reporter of the Year and Television Documentary of the Year.
Speaking at the event, media gurus
urged journalists to do more investigative stories, hinting that much hadn’t
been done on Boko Haram. Some categories were scrapped yesterday for want of
standard stories.
Dr. Doyin Abiola, first female editor of a
national daily and first managing director of a national newspaper company, and
Senator Akin Odunsi, veteran marketing communicator and former president of the
Association of Advertising Practitioners in Nigeria received Lifetime
Achievement awards at the event. The organizers said that through both of them “many journalists, marketing communicators and administrators have been produced who are today holding important positions in various communication positions worldwide.”
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