Tribune is best in Informed Commentary at DAME

EDITOR, Saturday Tribune, Dr Lasisi Olagunju, has emerged the winner of 31st Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) Aare Onibudo prize for Informed Commentary. 

Olagunju’s entry was adjudged the best by the panelists at the event held at Radisson Blu, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State, on Sunday. 

He had won the same category of DAME award in 2019 and 2021. 

Also, another staff member of the Nigerian Tribune, Adetola Bademosi, emerged first runner-up in Child-friendly reporting category. 

The Nation newspaper editor, Mr Niyi Adesina, won the Editor of the Year award. Punch newspaper emerged the leading newspaper in Editorial writing while Vanguard won the Best Designed Newspaper. 

Chairman of Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS), Mr Dotun Oyelade and Mr Demola Osinubi were among veterans decorated with DAME Fellow and Lifetime achievement awards respectively.

Meanwhile, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State, has warmly celebrated renowned journalist and columnist, Dr Lasisi Olagunju, for again winning the year’s Dame Award, expressing delight at the incredible feat of winning the award for a record third time.

Dr Olagunju received the award in 2019, 2021 and 2022, with the 2020 edition suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a congratulatory message conveyed in a statement signed by the governor’s spokesperson Olawale Rasheed on Monday, Governor Adeleke said the Dame Award was a further recognition of Dr Olagunju’s outstanding contributions to the field of journalism.

The governor noted the professionalism, responsiveness and unbending principles of Dr Olagunju, which explains the value accorded to his work at home and abroad.

“Dr Olagunju is one of the finest professionals we have around and I am excited that his contributions to our environment through his work is not going unnoticed,” the governor noted.

“I congratulate him on being a recipient of the Dame Award. It was a deserved honour going by how much he has used journalism as a tool of positive influence over the years.”

Governor Adeleke expressed hope that Dr Olagunju will continue to do Osun proud and inspire young people in the state and beyond to aim higher in their chosen fields without compromising their integrity.

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