Again, Edet Udoh, Publisher of Revealer Online Emerges Multiple Awards Winner At 2023 Nestle Nigeria Media Awards

The Publisher of The Revealer Online, Mr. Edet Udoh, has again emerged as the highest award winner at the 2023 Nestle Nigeria Media Awards which took place on Friday, December 8, 2023 at the Marriott Hotel, GRA, Ikeja.

Out of the eight categories of awards presented by Nestle Nigeria, Mr. Udoh carted away three first positions and one second position in the following categories of the awards: Best Story on Agriculture (1^st position), Best Story on Community Development (1^st position), Best Story on Youth Empowerment and Development (1^st position) and Best Story on Nutrition and Affordable Food Solution (2^nd position).

Udoh’s entries for Agriculture, Community Development, and Youth Empowerment/Development categories namely:  “Nestle Enhancing Farmers’ Capacity, Encouraging More Participation in Agriculture,” Nestle Accelerating Nigeria’s Industrialization Through Youths’ Employability Training,” and “NESTLE Nigeria Ensuring Availability Of Sustainable Clean Water For Nigerians,” were adjudged the best stories for first position while his entry for Nutrition and Affordable Food Solution titled “Nestle Nigeria: Revolutionizing Milk Collection In Nigeria,” was considered the Best Story for second position.

Mr. Udoh, during the 2^nd edition of the awards in 2022, went home with three first positions of the awards.

Other winners of awards at the Nestle Media Awards 2023 include Chioma Obinna of the Vanguard Newspaper;  Chioma Umeha of the Daily Independent Newspapers; Vivian Ihechu of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN); Bonny Amadi of the West Africa Business Nespapers; Odimegwu Onwumere; Supo Olosunde, Adekunde Ajayi; Usukuma Ntia; Augusta Uchediunor and Rahmatulah Mahmud.

Below are the details of the awards in categories:

PHOTO JOURNALISM CATEGORY:

AdekunleAjayi – Best Photojournalist Award (1^st position)

Olasupoolosunde – Best Photojournalist Award (2^nd position)

Kazeem Bakenne – Best Photojournalist Award (3^rd position)

AGRICULTURE CATEGORY

Edet Udoh – Best story on agriculture (1^st position)

Bonny Amadi – Best story on agriculture (2^nd position)

Samuel Diala – Best story on agriculture (3^rd position)

NUTRITION CATEGORY

Rahmatullah Mahmud – Best story on nutrition and affordable food solutions (1^st position)

Edet Udoh – Best story on nutrition and affordable food solutions (2^nd position)

Chioma Obinna – Best story on nutrition and affordable food solutions (3^rd position)

COMMUNITY CATEGORY

Edet Udoh – Best story on community development (1^st position)

Odimegwu Onwumere – Best story on community development (2^nd position)

Chioma Umeha – Best story on community development (3^rd position)

ENVIRONMENT CATEGORY

Amechi Obiakpu – Best story on environmental sustainability (1^st position)

Augusta Uchediunor – Best story on environmental sustainability (2^nd position)

Usukuma Ntia – Best story on environmental sustainability (3^rd position)

FINANCE CATEGORY

Chioma Umeha – Best story on finance (1^st position)

ShabaGbengaBest story on finance (2^nd position)

OdumeAzubuikeBest story on finance (3^rd position)

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT CATEGORY

Vivian Ihechu – Best story on women empowerment (1^st position)

Rahmatullah Mahmud – Best story on women empowerment (2^nd position)

Bonny Amadi – Best story on women empowerment (3^rd position)

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT CATEGORY

Edet Udoh – Best story on youth empowerment and development (1^st position)

Odimegwu Onwumere – Best story on youth empowerment and development (2^nd position)

Amechi Obiakpu – Best story on youth empowerment and development (3^rd position).

Behold the award winners, organisers, and members of the panel of judges

In her opening remarks, the Corporate Communications/Public Affairs Manager at Nestle Nigeria, Mrs. Victoria Uwadoka, said the award will continue to honour those who have demonstrated outstanding feats in reporting, investigative journalism, and feature writing etc.

According to her, “We are excited to host the 3rd edition of Nestlé Nigeria Media Awards. This platform allows us to acknowledge and appreciate the invaluable role that journalists play in shaping public opinion and driving positive change in our society.

“Nestlé Nigeria remains committed to supporting the media industry and promoting the highest standards of journalism. The Media Awards serve as a testament to this commitment, providing a platform for us to highlight and reward the exceptional talent and professionalism of journalists in Nigeria.”

Awards winners 

‘It is our way to help build skills, and improve our reporting standards to compete globally,” Victoria Uwadoka said.

She said the awards cover categories aligned with Nestlé’s focus areas, including Affordable Nutrition, Environmental Sustainability, Access to Water, Improving Household Incomes, Youth Empowerment, Women Empowerment, Finance, Building Thriving Communities, Agriculture, Nutrition Education for Children and wash, published in print, online or broadcast channels.

A Faculty Member at the Lagos Business School (LBS) Dr. Austin Nweze, who led the Panel of Judges, said the 118 entries received were all wonderful.

He said the entries gave them a tough time to arrive at the possible winner thereby making the panel of judges resort to looking at grammatical and sentence constructions to select the winners, noting that all the entries were winning entries.

Also speaking, a member of the panel of judges who is also a retired nutritionist, Africa Manager with the Nestle Nutrition Institute, Dr. Chioma Emma-Nwachukwu, commended all those who submitted their entries for the awards, describing them as winners.

She said that the reason why some people did not win was that they did not follow the rules and because of that there was no reason for assessing those entries, she appealed to participants to always follow the laid down rules and standards set for the awards.

“We also saw some people repeating what Nestle has given to them, therefore making their entries to have no depth, no extra or additional information … By researching, you can give more than what Nestle has given you, and it makes your entry more robust….” Dr. Emma=Nwachukuw said.

All the winners expressed excitement and thanked Nestle Nigeria for the honour done to them.