A story published on PREMIUM TIMES has emerged winner of the online category of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Journalism in Abuja on Saturday.
The winning story, authored by Kemi Busari, the editor of the fact-checking organisation, Dubawa, explored how a Nigerian herbal medicine seller, Baba Aisha, was promoting a herbal concoction with unverified claims of curing malaria and other ailments.
Annually, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) honours and celebrates investigative journalists across Nigeria who use exemplary investigative stories to hold people in governance to account, expose ills and amplify the voice of the most vulnerable people in Nigeria.
This year, ten finalists emerged from 99 entries assessed by the judges out of the total 209 entries received by the organisers.
Speaking on behalf of the seven-member panel of judges, Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika said the remaining 110 were screened out by the organisers before…
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