12th October, 2013
Bamidele Johnson/Johannesburg
Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye, editor of The Punch on Sunday, and Tolu Ogunlesi, a freelancer, were among the winners at the 2013 CNN/MultiChoice Africa Journalist of the Year Awards ceremony, which has just ended in at the Cape Town International Convention, Cape Town, South Africa .
Ogunseye won the prize for the Environment Category, while Ogunlesi claimed the award for the Business Category.
The most coveted prize, the CNN/MultiChoice Africa Journalist of the Year Award, was claimed by Msindisi Fengu and Yandisa Monakali of South Africa’s Daily Dispatch.
Their entry, Hostels of Shame, exposed the dire infrastructure in schools around their country’s Eastern Cape Province.
Ogunseye’s winning entry, The Rich Also Cry, exposed the harmful effects of steel production on the residents of an upscale Lagos neighbourhood.
Ogunlesi won his category with a report, Eko Atlantic City: A Mammoth New Development On The Coastline of Lagos.
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