BusinessDay, Nigeria’s leading business and financial newspaper, has won this year’s First Bank Prize for Business Publication of the Year, in the just concluded Nigeria Media Merit Award held weekend at the Imo State International Convention Centre, Owerri. It is the third time in a row that BusinessDay is winning at the NMA.
BusinessDay won the award for its balanced and research-oriented news reporting, analyses and consistent redefinition of the business reporting climate in the country.
BusinessDay is acclaimed for its incisive and interpretative reporting of business across sectors, with views from industry leaders and other business intelligence.
BusinessDay’s journalists have won a number of awards recently. Obinna Emelike, BusinessDay’s tourism and culture correspondent, was recently announced winner of the prestigious 2014 CNN-Multichoice award in the culture category at Dares Salaam, Tanzania. Emenike won the award for a feature length story entitled, ‘The roads between us: A journey across Nigeria’.
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Similarly, Iheanyi Nwachukwu, Patrick Atunaya and Sule Teliat Abiodun, all of BusinessDay, recently participated in a training at the International Law Institute in Georgetown, United States of America, for winning the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Essay Competition for Journalists.
While Nwachukwu won the first prize in the maiden edition of the competition in 2012, Atuanya alongside Teslim Shitta-Bey of Business Hallmark jointly won the first prize in the 2013 edition.
Teliat Sule Abiodun of BusinessDay was the first runner-up in 2013 edition.
ODINAKA ANUDU
