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PUNCH reporter wins Africa’s insurance journalism award

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Nike Popoola, Swakopmund, Namibia

A Chief Correspondent with The PUNCH, Miss Nike Popoola, has emerged the winner of Africa’s Best Re/Insurance Industry Analysis and Commentary Journalist of the Year award.

Popoola was announced as one of three winners at the 2018 Pan-African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards, which took place at a gala dinner during the fifth African Insurance Chief Executive Officers’ summit that was sponsored by Continental Reinsurance Plc, Africa’s largest private reinsurer, in Swakopmund, Namibia on Monday night.

Regulators, chief executive officers and directors of insurance companies and brokerage firms from African countries participated in the event.

Popoola won with her article titled, ‘Foreigners taking over Nigerian insurance industry’.

She had emerged as the Pan African Journalist of the Year at the maiden edition of the awards in 2016.

Popoola was adjudged the Insurance Reporter of the Year in 2010, 2011 and 2015 by the Nigerian Media Merit Awards. She also won the Insurance Reporter of the Year awards in 2010, 2015 and 2017 at the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence.

At Monday’s awards, a journalist with Africa Prime News, Nigeria, Odimegwu Onwuwere, won the Pan African Journalist of the Year Award with his article titled, ‘Africa’s emerging new frontier in the reinsurance markets’.

Business and data journalist with the Standard Group, Kenya, Otiato Guguyu, won the Best Re/Insurance Industry Feature Award, with his article, ‘Business of protecting wealth from drought’.

Gareth Stokes of Commercial Risk Africa, South Africa, won a special award in recognition of his exemplary contribution to re/insurance journalism and was recommended to become a judge in future editions. He had won the Pan African Journalist of the Year Award in 2017.

Speaking at the award ceremony, the Group Managing Director, Continental Reinsurance, Dr. Femi Oyetunji, said the Pan-African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards were an extension of the company’s commitment to advance excellence in the insurance sector.

“I am glad that this year’s entries not only improved in quality, but they also came from a wider range of countries, and with more diverse insurance topics being featured by journalists. We will be including two new categories in next year’s awards for broadcast and online entries, and I will like to encourage TV, radio and online journalists to participate,” he stated.

“A cash prize of $2,000 for the overall winner and $1,000 for the other two categories and a two-day training on insurance reporting during the awards event and mentorship by Rubicon Media, publishers of Commercial Risk Africa magazine. The overall winner will also win a fully-paid trip to attend CRA’s training in London, United Kingdom including a one-week internship.”

The third edition of the journalism awards received 61 entrants from 15 English and French speaking countries, including Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Namibia, Mauritius and Zambia for Anglophones

The Francophone countries are Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Senegal, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo and Togo.

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