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UNILAG lecturer, Akiyode-Afolabi wins Soyinka journalism centre award

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A lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and human rights lawyer, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, has bagged the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) award.

Akiyode-Afolabi who is the founder of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) and former Public Relations Officer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), would be conferred with the ‘2022 Human Rights Defender Award’ at the 17th edition of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting presentation ceremony scheduled for Thursday December 8 in Lagos.

The Executive Director of WSCIJ, Motunrayo Alaka, conveyed the information to her in a letter dated November 23 2022.

The letter titled ’17th Wole Soyinka Centre Award Nomination for Honorary Award’, reads, “Dear Dr. Abiola Afolabi Akiyode. It is my pleasure to announce to you on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Wole Soyinka Centre for investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) of the organisation’s decision to honour you with the 2022 Human Rights Defender Award, at the Seventeenth Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting presentation ceremony

“This year, the award event will hold as part of the Amplify in-depth Media Conference and Awards which will include the Amplify In-depth Media Conference and annual award. The conference, themed to-depth media and democratic governance, will hold on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th December from 10am to 2:30pm while the award event is scheduled for Friday 9th by 3pm at the NECA House, Hakeem Balogun Street, off Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.

“The search committee for the award came up with an overwhelming recommendation of your many efforts to fight abuses of human rights in Nigeria, and in Africa; your consistency in defending human rights in general and the rights if girls and women in particular. The fight for equity in Nigeria has been a swim against the tide in many aspects and this award comes to honour your bravery and acknowledge the huge movement for change that you lead.

The WSCIJ introduced the Anti-Corruption/Human Rights Defender Award in 2009 in collaboration with four human rights organisations in the country, including yours, intending to honour a Nigerian individual or organisation of outstanding ethical dimension whose personality, and professional engagements, deeply incarnates the total ramification of integrity in our nation’s life. We will give the award under the human rights specialty this year.”

Recipients of the anti-corruption defender award in the past years were Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (posthumous), Justice Kayode Eso, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Dr. Chidi Odinkalu, the Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), Prof Attahiru Jega, Public Private Development Centre (PPDC), Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili and Mr. Waziri Adio.

In 2019, 2020 and 2021, Amnesty International (Nigeria), Mr. Femi Falana and Mr. Innocent Chukwuma (posthumous) were given the Human Rights specialty of the award.

The award was first hosted in 2005, to reward, annually, rigorous reporting and best practices in the art of investigative reporting in the Nigerian media

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