BusinessDay journalist, Odinaka Anudu, has won the 2018 Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) Reporter of the Year award. Anudu retained the award which he previously won in 2016 and 2017.
He was announced the winner at the 2019 MAN annual media luncheon held in Ikeja, Lagos, held last Wednesday.
According to MAN, Anudu’s stories, submitted through a competitive process, were considered most incisive and in-depth, meeting all the criteria set by judges.
His in-depth reporting and analysis of relevant issues in the manufacturing sector stood out among his colleagues’, said MAN.
Mansur Ahmed, president, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), said Anudu also won the award for going extra mile to do in-depth reporting and analyses of issues and policies affecting the manufacturing sector, adding that he placed key manufacturing challenges on the front burner of public discourse.
“We congratulate Odinaka Anudu for being a serial winner of this award,” Ahmed said, adding that it is a demonstration of his doggedness.
Odinaka Anudu, BusinessDay’s Senior Editorial Analyst, edits the Industry and SMEs sections, supervising a widely-read section produced every Monday called ‘Start-Up Digest’. He has won a number of local and international journalism awards, fellowships and grants. Internally, he won the 2018 BusinessDay Top Performer for the Editorial Department, making him the best journalist for the newspaper last year.
He has won some nominations outside Nigeria, notable among which was his 2017 selection by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, for a fully-funded investigation in Guateng.
Anudu is a trained economist and philosopher. He is also an entrepreneur, public speaker and former school teacher. He was educated at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He was formerly the secretary-general of the National Drug Abuse Control Association, receiving several training programmes in journalism, locally and internally. He has two books to his credit, ‘Top-Class English for Schools and Colleges’ (2009) and ‘Drug Abuse and Our Future: Who Will Bell the Cat?’ (2010).
In its tradition, BusinessDay has produced other award-winning journalists, including Patrick Atuanya (editor), Chuka Uroko, Obinna Emelike, Iheanyi Nwachukwu, Daniel Obi, Teliat Sule, Josephine Okojie, Isaac Anyaogu, and Caleb Ojewale, among many others.
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