BusinessDay, Nigeria’s leading business and financial newspaper, has won the First Bank Prize for “Business Publication of the Year” at the 26th edition of the Nigerian Media Merit Awards (NMMA).
The award ceremony, which took place at the Federal Palace Hotel in Lagos on Thursday night, saw the leading business paper as the only nominee among others newspapers in the country.
This development has got thumbs up from analytical readers and business lovers, especially given the fact that BusinessDay was the only Nigerian print newspaper that was regarded “fit and suitable” of being nominated into that category.
While the management and the entire BusinessDay family are indeed grateful for bagging this award of excellence, it is worthy of note that the business paper has consistently won the award in this category for a number of times.
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The paper recently clinched the Special Recognition and print media Partner award organized by the FMDQ OTC securities exchange, for its contributions to the growth of the Nigerian capital market.
In its tradition, BusinessDay has also produced award-winning journalists, including Anthony Osae-Brown (editor), Patrick Atuanya, Odinaka Anudu, Iheanyi Nwachukwu, Isaac Anyaogu, Caleb Ojewale, Chuka Uroko, Obinna Emelike, Daniel Obi, Teliat Sule, Josephine Okojie, among many others.
BusinessDay’s head of capital markets, Iheanyi Nwachukwu had won the “2018 Capital Market Journalist of the Year” award by The PEARL Awards Nigeria.
According to the board of governors of PEARL awards Nigeria, Iheanyi clinched the award based on his “outstanding performance in the reportage and objective analysis of activities in the Nigerian Capital Market”.
Similarly, Frank Eleanya, senior technology correspondent, was selected by APO after an intense competition to represent the African media at the Web Summit, in Lisbon, Portugal. The Web Summit 2018, which held in November, is the world’s largest technology conference with over 70,000 participants from all over the world. He was also invited in December to moderate a high-level forum on artificial intelligence by UNESCO in the Kingdom of Morocco.
Josephine Okojie won the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), Nigeria chapter, 2018.
Chinwe Agbeze, investigative correspondent, BDSUNDAY, was honoured at the 13th Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Reporting on December 9, 2018 where she emerged the first runner-up in the Print category for her undercover investigation titled ‘FG’s school feeding programme: The truths, half-truths and outright lies’.
Agbeze was a finalist for the 2018 Free Press Awards (Newcomer of the Year category), and was crowned second runner-up at the 2018 PricewaterhouseCoopers Awards (Business and Economy reporting category).
Issac Anyaogu, oil and gas analyst, came first at PWC Media Excellence Award for the small and medium Enterprises (SMEs) reporting category.
In the same vein, Oladipo Oladehinde, was awarded Second best oil and gas reporter by Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI).
Ifeoma Okeke, in 2018, was nominated for an award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies.
No doubt, BusinessDay is sincerely thankful as being Nigeria’s leading business and financial newspaper, covering business, finance, economy, industry, banking, politics, insurance, health and arts, among others.
