Multiple award winning reporters with The Nation, Olatunji Ololade and Innocent Duru, have been shortlisted for international awards.
Ololade is a finalist in the prestigious Fetisov Journalism Awards (FJA). His work, ‘The Boys Who Swapped Football for Bullets’ was among the five entries shortlisted in the Outstanding Contribution to Peace category. This is Ololade’s second consecutive nomination for the Fetisov awards. In 2020, his investigative series on sex trafficking of Nigerian girls across West Africa: 21st Century Slaves, was shortlisted for the Outstanding Investigative Reporting Category of the Fetisov awards.
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Duru emerged a finalist in the maiden West and Central Africa Migration Journalism Awards organised by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). His work ‘Our battle with depression, stigmatisation after return from Libya’ was shortlisted in the Reintegration category of the award.
Ololade is a recipient of 33 awards for journalism excellence spanning different categories of the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist Award, WAMECA, Wole Soyinka Prize for Investigative Journalism, Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME), UN/Migration Reporting Awards, Rotary Humanitarian Journalism Awards and the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA)
Duru has 14 journalism awards, including NMMA, WAMECA and UNESCO journalism award to his credit.