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PREMIUM TIMES JOURNALIST WINS MEDIA AWARD

The Premium Times reporter  defeated Teliat Sule of Businessday and Oluseyi Awojulugbe of The Cable who were runners-up in the category,while other  categories are SMEs, Tax and Business and Economic reporting won by Bayo Akinloye of THISDAY, Kelechukwu Izuoma of Ripples Nigeria and Isaac Anyaogu of Businessday respectively.

Penpushing further reports that, Olawoyin, a senior reporter on Business desk of the Premium Times ,and  a first-class graduate of Mass Communication from the University of Ilorin, joins his colleague, Kemi Busari who won last year’s Business and Economic prize.

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The  award-winning journalist who has been nominated and won several awards is a recipient of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting, and was recently shortlisted for the 2019 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award, alongside two other Nigerians, Damilola Banjo and Amos Abba.

Penpushing also reports that, Olawoyin, in 2018, was a finalist in the West Africa Media Excellence Awards, nominee in the Golden Pen Awards and was named “Global Goalkeeper” by the Gates Foundation in South Africa in recognition of his reporting of the global goals.

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