FULL LIST: Winners at the 2019 Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME)

The Trustees of DAME have congratulated winners who were inducted into the DAME Hall of FAME on Sunday, December 29, 2019, at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja.

The DAME awards which was launched in 1991 is Africa’s longest media awards programme.

Below are the full list of winners at the 28th edition of the awards;

First runner-up: Dauda Sulaimon, The Nation – ETLS: Conduit for palm oil smuggling
Second runner-up: Isioma Madike, New Telegraph – Fish farming: Graduates response to Nigeria’s unemployment crisis

First runner-up: This Day Newspaper
Second runner-up: Vanguard Newspaper

First runner-up: This Day
Second runner-up: Vanguard

Runner-up: Chukwuemeka Cornelius, New Telegraph – Jumbo allowances for senators and governors

Category: Education Reporting

Winner: Cletus Ukpong, Premium Times – Learning in tears: Inside the massive decay in public schools in oil-rich Akwa Ibom
First Runner-up: Afeez Hanafi, The Punch – Double trouble for visually impaired pupils in Nigerian schools
Second Runner-up: Kofoworaola Belo-Osagie, The Nation – Out of school… Out of Touch

Winner:  Fisayo Soyombo, The Cable – with N46, 000, I drove a ‘stolen’ car from Abuja to Lagos and back
First runner-up: Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, Premium Times – How Saraki’s National Assembly spent N6.6 billion Adeosun largesse on exotic cars
Second runner-up: Innocent Duru, The Nation – Failed Constituency projects rock Ekiti Communities

Winner: Nicholas Ibekwe, Premium Times – How Lagos govt sidelined local operators for foreign company with no experience in waste collection
First runner-up: Tope Omogbolagun, The Punch – Lagos dump where scavengers trade in used syringes, other surgical waste
Second runner-up: Tunbosun Ogundare, Nigerian Tribune – Drama as Lagos teachers use pidgin to teach on Yoruba Day

First runner-up: Adejumo Kabir, Premium Times – Nigerian Police officer caught on camera taking bribe
Second runner-up: Ayodele Adeniran, The Guardian – From mega city to mega dump

First runners-up: The Nation

Second runners-up: Premium Times

First runners-up: Gbenga Omotosho, The Nation

Second runners-up: Muskilu Mojeed, Premium Times