PREMIUM TIMES, Nigeria’s leading digital newspaper, emerged as one of the standout newsrooms at the 34th Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME), held on Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos.
The award, which began in 1992, is an annual scheme designed to encourage media responsibility, quality reporting and enhance professionalism in the Nigerian media industry by rewarding talent and enterprise.
Folashade Ogunrinde, a reporter on PREMIUM TIMES’ investigations desk clinched the first prize in the Solid Minerals Reporting category with her entry ‘Inside illegal operations of mining firm responsible for Ibadan fatal explosion’.
The evidence led investigation report not only exposed the real culprits responsible for the explosion that killed at least five persons in Bodija, Ibadan Oyo State, but also sheds light on how illegal miners operate and source explosives.
The report brought to light the corruption that has eaten deep into the mining sector and the loopholes rogue miners exploit to embark on il
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