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It was at the African Screens..... And i was there with Manthia Diawara, Awam Amkpa, Balufu Kupanda, and others chaperoned by hardworking Noeele Georg Laos and Paula Nascimento. Great event. The Nigerian Ambassador to Portugal showed up with his daughter.. and spoke up Nollywood in the context of Nation Building and the Dora Akunyili-powered Rebranding Project. African Screen is a project of a group of great friends of Africa, who believe that the story of the continent is better told through the prisms of the Film... Nollywood or its big brother....

Adeyemi Ayodeji, a Business Correspondent with Tell Magazine who won the Sports award with his story, Game of Gold, that narrates how some Nigerians have been exploiting the English Premier League, EPL, to better their economic lot. He winning ace, according to the judges was the refreshing dimension that he brought to Sports reporting: and the depth of his investigation which dwelt on facts and actualities. Ayodeji studied Economics at the University of Ibadan, and joined Tell Communications in 2006, rising this year to become the Business Correspondent this year. Tolu Ogunlesi, who was specially celebrated for the power of his language and prose, won the Arts & Culture Award for his story, What The Truck?, a narrative on Lagos eclectic living culture and the psychological comportment of Lagosians through the prisms of the graffiti on the city notorious means of transportation, the Molue alias ‘Funky Train’. Tolu who wrote the story as the contributing editor of Glide Magazine, is...