Eligibility
The Award is open to any Nigerian professional journalist or team of journalists (full time professional or freelancers)

Categories
Consideration will be for works in the Print, Broadcast, Photojournalism and Online journalism.

Criteria:
The main criterion for eligibility is that the investigation (single work or single-subject serial) involves reporting on public or corporate corruption, and/or human rights violations or highlighting issues of development. Such works must have been first published or broadcast in a Nigerian media within the past one year.

Print Entries - Newspaper and Magazine

Judges are particularly looking for courageous journalism, as well as writing excellence, accuracy, storytelling, newsworthiness, ethics, research, impact and public benefit.

Broadcast Entries - Radio and Television

High regards will be placed on newsworthiness, courage, impact, incisiveness, immediacy, quality of production and making use of the qualities of the medium in reporting news and pursuing excellence in journalism.

Photographic Entries

Regarding Photojournalism entries:

Judges will be looking at newsworthiness, impact, technical superiority, creativity and originality will be looked at in this category. Ideally, submissions should be human-interest photos displaying creativity, originality and technical photographic excellence.

• All submitted works must be in English language.
• For video/audio entries, English language transcripts are required.
• Audio entries should be sent in Audio CD format, with accompanying script; video entries must be on VCD, with accompanying script.

Submission Letter

The submitted package must include:

• A brief synopsis of the story/series, caption of picture or synopsis of portfolio.
  
  
Here the applicant is expected to:


• Explain the background of the project, identifying the issues and key players.
• Describe what led to the topic, any unusual condition they faced in developing the project and whether the investigation had any ramifications.
• Describe challenges to the content of the story/series that were not reported in the original work.

• Curriculum Vitae must be submitted for every reporter who bears the byline of the story.

Note

• Submission letter should be in English and not more than two typed pages.
• One copy of each submission is required
• For single photographic entries, at least eight submissions are required. Email submissions will not be accepted for all categories.
• Entries made after the deadline will not be treated.

Selection
Entries submitted shall be adjudged by a standing judges commitee which comprised of time-tested Nigerian media professionals.

Deadline for Submission of Entries: CLOSED