Akinrinade, Adebajo, Others Emerge Winners of Wole Soyinka Media Award

 By Ibrahim Firdaus and Abosede Hannah



Olukunle Akinrinade of The Nation Newspaper has emerged the winner of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting ( WSAIR) Journalist of the Year.

Akinrinade also won the Print category of the award on Thursday along with Kunle Adebajo, Mary Abayomi-Fatile, Victor Asowata and Abiodun Omotoso who won the other categories of the award.


At the award event held at Neca House Ikeja, the organisers pronounced Olukunle Akinrinade as the Investigative Reporter of the year and winner of the Print category of the Award, Kunle Adebajo as the winner of the Online Category, Mary Abayomi-Fatile as the winner of the Radio Category, Victor Asowata as the winner of the Editorial Cartoon category and Abiodun Omotosho as the winner of the Photography category.


The 2021 edition of the Award is the 16th in the history of WSAIR and the winners emerged out of the 220 entries reviewed by the judges' board chaired by Ayo Obe a Lawyer, human rights activist and journalist. In her comment as a judge of the competition, she noted that report of security crisis took the highest number in the entries submitted for the year.



Akinrinade emerged the investigative reporter and the Print Category winner of the year for his report on how soldiers escort herdsmen to Ogun villages and flog them for rejecting herders spanning for three months on The Nation. His runner up in the Print Category is Omolabake Fasogbon of ThisDay while Tessy Igomu's work was commended in the same category.




Kunle Adebajo won the online category with his report, "The Deradicalised One Man's Journey from Almajiri to Jihadist and then IDP" published on HumAngle.  Ibrahim Adeyemi of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) emerged the runner up and Taiwo Adebayo's report on Premium time was commended.



While the Television Category has only a commended work from Sharon Ijasan of TVC, Mary Abayomi-Fatile's investigative report on Indian company staff aired on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria made he the winner of the Radio category.

Kelechukwu Ogu was the runner up of the Radio category for his work on Rhythm 93.7 FM, Zainab Sanni of Agidigbo FM was commended for her report on Oyo Zero Pothole Project. 


Olatunji Obasa of Punch was commended for his frontpage photograph on water scarcity in Abuja, while Benedict Uwalaka of Daily Trust was the runner up, Abiodun Omotoso of Nigerian Pilot emerged as the winner of the photography category for their pictures on police brutality during protests.


Victor Asowata of The Will Newspaper was the winner of the Editorial Cartoon category for his Seed Time and Harvest editorial cartoon.

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