DUBAWA\u2019s editor, Kemi Busari, has emerged triumphant in the investigative reporting category at the 32nd Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is coming less than 24 hours after claiming the online category prize at the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting<\/a> (WSAIR).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the DAME ceremony, held in Lagos on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, Mr Busari’s investigative piece titled<\/a>, \u201cBaba Aisha, Nigeria\u2019s fake \u2018doctor\u2019 cashing out on deadly concoction that cures nothing,\u201d and other subsequent publications edged him ahead of his contemporaries in the category; Tunde Ajaja of Punch Newspaper and Ibrahim Adeyemi of Premium Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Busari\u2019s in-depth and impactful reporting on the unregistered herbal medicine popularly known as “Baba Aisha Herbal Medicine” exposed the hazardous consumption of the products, victims and the complacent attitude of the pharmaceutical regulatory agency, NAFDAC, in the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The DAME Award specifically recognises investigative works done by Nigerian journalists in the broadcast, print or online field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the award organisers<\/a>, the judges \u201cemphasised the degree and thoroughness of investigation, the relevance of the work to society, the style of presentation and the impact the work had.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Triumphing in the investigative category of the DAME Awards added another feather to Busari’s cap, coming hot on the heels of his success at the WSAIR\u2019s online category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The story had placed DUBAWA on the global map after winning the Highest Impact Award<\/a> at the Global Fact 10 summit in Seoul on June 30, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Oct. 6, 2023, his story was the runner<\/a>-up for the professional fact-checking category at the Africa Check Awards in Mauritius before becoming the first Nigerian ever to clinch the Silver Awards<\/a> for Science Reporting at the In-Depth Category of the AAAS Kavli Awards on Nov. 9, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DUBAWA\u2019s editor, Kemi Busari, has emerged triumphant in the investigative reporting category at the 32nd Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME). This is coming less than 24 hours after claiming the online category prize at the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting (WSAIR).\u00a0 At the DAME ceremony, held in Lagos on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, Mr Busari’s investigative piece titled, \u201cBaba Aisha, Nigeria\u2019s fake \u2018doctor\u2019 cashing out on deadly concoction that cures nothing,\u201d and other subsequent publications edged him ahead of his contemporaries in the category; Tunde Ajaja of Punch Newspaper and Ibrahim Adeyemi of Premium Times. Mr Busari\u2019s in-depth and impactful reporting on the unregistered herbal medicine popularly known as “Baba Aisha Herbal Medicine” exposed the hazardous consumption of the products, victims and the complacent attitude of the pharmaceutical regulatory agency, NAFDAC, in the crisis. The DAME Award specifically recognises investigative works done by Nigerian journalists in the broadcast, print or online field. According to the award organisers, the judges \u201cemphasised the degree and thoroughness of investigation, the relevance of the work to society, the style of presentation and the impact the work had.\u201d One story, many laurels Triumphing in the investigative category of the DAME Awards added another feather to Busari’s cap, coming hot on the heels of his success at the WSAIR\u2019s online category. The story had placed DUBAWA on the global map after winning the Highest Impact Award at the Global Fact 10 summit in Seoul on June 30, 2023.\u00a0 On Oct. 6, 2023, his story was the runner-up for the professional fact-checking category at the Africa Check Awards in Mauritius before becoming the first Nigerian ever to clinch the Silver Awards for Science Reporting at the In-Depth Category of the AAAS Kavli Awards on Nov. 9, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[3812,121,3815,1688],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3263],"class_list":["post-16977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline","category-health","category-homepage","category-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4pP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3263,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"phillip-anjorin","display_name":"Phillip Anjorin","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/98daaf5d9d7a2c5cd4ce1c417532d1cfa2ca293247710cf46a925146cc2e90e1?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kemi-Award.jpg?fit=1024%2C570&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16977\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16977"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=16977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=16977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}One story, many laurels<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n