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Monday, 25 November 2013

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[Video] Patrick Obahiagbon Opens “Fire of Zamani" Concert In His Idiosyncratic Way

We all know Patrick Obahiagbon for his sesquipedalianism and here he is again...

VIDEO:IcePrince,Olamide,Yung L & Phyno Perform “Gimme Dat” @ FOZ Concert.

FOZ concert was yesterday and even though WALE wasn’t around to headline the show ,we hear it was an amazing experience for those in attendance .Watch this performance below and we have many more to come from the concert .

IcePrince,Olamide,Yung L & Phyno Performing ”Gimme Dat” @ the FOZ concert.

PUNCH Is Newspaper Of The Year Again

With accustomed flourish, Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper, PUNCH, has again confirmed its preeminent position in the country’s newspaper industry.

At the 22nd Diamond Awards for Media Excellence awards in Lagos on Saturday, your darling newspaper swept all the top prizes, winning seven of the 12 available prizes and leaving only five for other newspapers to share.

PUNCH beat the National Mirror, which won three prizes in all, and The Nation, which won two, to emerge Newspaper of the Year. The top prizes won by PUNCH were Editor of the Year, Press Reporter of the Year, Judicial Reporter of the Year, the Action Photography award, Best Editorial Writing award and the Informed Commentary award.

PUNCH’s outstanding outing at the awards, an annual celebration of journalistic excellence, is reminiscent of the newspaper’s feats at all the country’s foremost journalism awards in the last four years.

PUNCH is the country’s current holder of the Newspaper of the Year and Editor of the Year prizes of the country’s two foremost journalistic awards – DAME and the Nigerian Media Merit Awards.

PUNCH had won DAME’s Newspaper of the Year award last year, and for the fourth time, after beating The Guardian and National Mirror to distant second and third positions respectively. In the same year, Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper also won the Newspaper of the Year prize at the Nigerian Media Merit Awards, for the second year in a row.

During the Saturday event, which started around 8pm at the Sheraton Lagos Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, DAME also gave lifetime achievement awards to two veteran journalists, Mr. Felix Adenaike and Mrs. Omobola Onajide.

Mr. Adenaike, one of the country’s most distinguished journalists, is a former Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of the defunct Sketch newspapers, and also a former Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Tribune. Mrs. Onajide was the first Nigerian woman to work in a television newsroom and the first General Manager of the old Midwest Television.

PUNCH’s Controller, Publications, Mr. Adeyeye Joseph, the editor of the newspaper in 2012, the year reviewed, beat Steve Ayorinde, a former editor of the National Mirror, to win the Nigerian Guild of Editor’s Prize for Editor of the Year. Joseph had also won the prize last year.

The newspaper’s Editorial Board, which has won critical acclaim for its hard-hitting pro-people editorials won the Tunji Oseni Memorial Fund prize for Editorial Writing. Its winning entry was an editorial, ‘13 years of democracy and despair’, published on May 29, 2012. The prize came almost a year to the date that the newspaper’s editorial board had published one of the most shared and widely discussed editorials in the country in 2012.

The prescient editorial, Jonathan Spendthrift: Enough is Enough, had flayed the Goodluck Jonathan administration for its extravagance.

PUNCH’s serial award-winning journalist and Editor, Sunday PUNCH, Toyosi Ogunseye, won DAME’s Sam Amuka Media Fund prize for Press Reporter of the Year. Ogunseye’s winning entry was a three-part story titled, ‘The rich also cry: A tale of deaths and diseases in a heavily polluted upscale estate.” To clinch the prize, Ogunseye beat Sam Oluwalana of National Mirror and Lucas Olumuyiwa of Tell.

Earlier in the year, Ogunseye’s story had won the Health Prize in the CNN African Journalist of the Year awards held in South Africa. Only last month, Ogunseye had also emerged runner-up Best Young Journalist from the Developing World at the United Kingdom Foreign Press Association’s Media Awards.

Of the three journalists nominated for the DAME prize in Judicial Reporting, two were PUNCH journalists. They were PUNCH’s current outstanding employee of the year, Eniola Akinkuotu, and the newspaper’s Judiciary Correspondent, Adeyemi Adesomoju. But in the end it was Adesomoju, who picked up the Justice Omotayo Onalaja Prize for Judicial Reporting. Adesomoju’s winning entry was ‘One day in court, life in jail’ published on June 25, 2012. Akinkuotu, whom PUNCH had rewarded with a brand new car for his emergence as the company’s outstanding employee of the year, emerged first runner-up, beating Francis Famoroti of the National Mirror to third place.

PUNCH also had two nominations in the Action Photography category. The newspaper’s Photo Editor, Olusegun Bakare, and photojournalist, Adegoke Famadewa, were nominated alongside Ezekiel Adeparusi of the National Mirror.

However, it was Bakare’s photograph of a physically challenged man being assisted during the January 2012 subsidy protest in Lagos that won the prize. Famadewa emerged second runner-up with a June 1, 2012 shot of a tanker fire that killed two persons and razed 10 trailers.

Your newspaper also had two nominations in the Informed Commentary category. PUNCH’s Friday columnist, Prof. Ayo Olukotun, won the Alade Odunewu prize for Informed Commentary with his piece titled, ‘Wanted: An alternative national honours system’.

Popular Nigerian DJ, DJ humility, slams US rapper Wale on Twitter

DJ Humility's outburst most likely has something to do with Wale's absence at Ice Prince's concert last night. (They know things we don't know). Wale's reason for not coming didn't make much sense but I know he will be here next weekend November 30th for the Johnnie Walker event.

MKO Abiola Airport To Be Completed By May 2014- Contractor

Contractor promises completion of new airport in Osun State by May 2014

WorldStage Newsonline-- Aeronautical Engineering and Technical Services company handling the contruction of MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido Osun, in Osun State has assured that the project will be completed by May 2014.

According to the company's Project Supervisor, Engr. Abubakar Abuyaro, the airport's 3.5 kilometers runway when completed will be the longest in the country.

Addressing Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his entourage on a visit to the site in Ido-Osun, he said it would beat the Muritala Mohammed International Airport and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 3 kilometre and Abuja 2.8 kilometre and 2.8 respectively.

Aregbesola, who was conducted round the airport by the Project Supervisor, inspected the runway for aircraft which is under construction and other facilities at the airport.

Abuyaro said that largest part of the work on the airport is on the runway, which progress has been slowed down by this year incessant heavy rain.

According to Abuyaro, that majority of the excavation work that needed to be done could not be carried out during the rainy season in order to ensure a quality job.

"Fifty per cent of the earth work on the runway, which is the most important part of the job, has been achieved. Rainy season is gradually going to an end. As soon as rainfall subsides, work will definitely go at a high speed in the airport, which after completion, is going to be one of the best airports in the country," he said.

Abuyaro, who explained that a solid base is needed for the 3.5 kilometres runway, which he said will be the longest in the country, disclosed that all the hydraulic structures, which form the drainages and culverts for the runway, are being constructed now in other to speed up the job.

He stated further that the form work for the precast drainages are already on ground and casting work is going on everyday so as to speed up job when the rai rain stops.

Engr. Abuyaro noted that when completed, the airport will be one of the best and one with the longest runway in the country, saying that the length of the runway of an airport determines the aircraft the airport can accommodate.

He said that the MKO International Airport is being built to accommodate the Boeing 737 aircraft series.

Governor Aregbesola, who commended the company for its diligence to work, also inspected the East By-Pass Road to ensure that they contractors do quality job and delivered on agreed date.

The project being handled by a Turkish company, Slava Yeditepe, is to complete the circle of rings around the state capital and ensure no traffic bottlenecks are created as the state capital witnesses rapid developments.