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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 also a contributor to various other newspapers in Nigeria, including The Guardian, where he ran a column in The Guardian on Sunday Life magazine for months last year. Also a poet, Tolu contributes to international journals such as the Helsinki Times, Banyan Review among others. He was the winner of the Scenarios from Africa Writing competition in 2005; the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006; and the Guardian (UK)/Ziji Publishing Short Story Competition in 2007.


The journalist of the Year Award however went to John-Allan Namu of Kenya Television Network (KTN), who had earlier won the Television Feature (In the Shadow of the Mungiki), and the Television News (Scars and Sufuras) awards. Aside cash prize and a laptop won by every one of the 16 winners (out of 25 finalists), Namu will also have a one-year fellowship at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta USA.



* Tolu with the CNN 'Insde Africa' Presenter, the Sierra Leonean, Isha Sashay



*The winners Tolu, Ayodeji... with some members of the Nigerian delegation: Ike Amaechi, Editor Daily Independent; the winner from Egypt; Multichoice's PRman, Segun Fayose, and j.

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