Meet the winners of Citibank Journalist awards 2015.

 

Citibank Nigeria concluded the 7th edition of its prestigious Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards on May 6th 2015. The program culminated with an awards ceremony to honour this year’s finalists. The competition was open to business journalists in all forms of media including the internet, print, radio, television and wire services.  Mr. Peter Dele Olowa of BusinessDay has been named winner of the 2015 competition in Nigeria.

(L) Managing Director and CEO, Citibank Nigeria Limited, Mr. Omar Hafeez and the Deputy Editor Business Day ,Mr. Agomuo Zebulon (R) presenting a plaque to the winner of the 2015 Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards Competition, Mr. Peter Dele Olowa of Business Day at the recently concluded competition in Lagos.

Mr. Olowa was selected as a winner for his article titled “The òmò-onile phenomenon” which was published in Business Day on December 12th 2014. Likewise, Mr. Francis Ezem of the National Mirror and Mrs. Omobola Tolu-Kusimo of the Nation emerged as the first and second runner ups of the competition respectively.

This year, Citibank Nigeria received twenty-eight (28) entries from business reporters across various media outlets, including Business Day, Daily Independent, Global Media Mirror, Guardian, Leadership, Nation, New Telegraph, Punch, Thisday, TVC and Vanguard.

In Nigeria, the three finalists were selected by a distinguished panel of judges which included Mrs. Betty Irabor, Chief Executive Officer of Genevieve Magazine, Mr. James Plasman, Economic Officer of the US Consulate General in Lagos and Mr. Richard Ikiebe, Director and Senior Fellow of the Pan-Atlantic University’s School of Media and Communications.

The Citi Journalistic Excellence Awards competition sends winning journalists to an elite seminar at Columbia University in New York. The international journalist’s conference is a special program sponsored by Citi and administered by Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. For over thirty years, the program has served to improve the quality of business journalism in the developing world by exposing leading local journalists to the issues and people that drive the global economy.

This year, nearly two dozen journalists from eighteen countries will get to meet with leaders of the international business community, government, media and academia in New York. In previous years, former Senior Vice President of the NY Federal Reserve Bank, Peter Bakstansky, former NY Federal President- Timothy Geithner and Ambassador Felix Rohatyn have spoken to the group as have Columbia Professors Bruce Shapiro, Edward Schumacher-Matos, Ricardo Reis and Irene Finel Honigman.

Vanguard reported.