The Nation shone brightly yesterday at the 26th Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME), winning three coveted prizes of the 13 categories reserved for the print media.
Multiple award-winning Associate Editor Olatunji Ololade clinched two awards – UNICEF Prize for Child-Friendly Reporting and Honorable Justice Moronkeji Onalaja Memorial Prize for Judicial Reporting.
Ololade’s entry in the Child-Friendly Category is titled: This child has no blame, published on July 23, 2016. His entry for Judicial Reporting is titled: Life on death row: Tragic lives of Nigerian prisoners, published on June 4, 2016.
Other nominees in the Child-Friendly category are The Nation’s Kunle Akinrinade and Hannah Ojo.
Ace sport writer Taiwo Alimi won the S.O. Idowu Prize for Sport Reporting, beating The Punch’s Arukaino Umukoro and TELL’s Anthony Akaeze. Alimi’s entry, titled: The making of Olympic champions, was published on October 16, 2016.
The Nation’s writers win coveted prizes at DAME
