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DUBAWA’s Copy Editor nominated for Global Journalism Award

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Simbiat Bakare, DUBAWA’s Copy Editor, has been shortlisted for the Global Journalism Award—2025 True Story Award. She earned this nomination for her investigation into Odalo, a Nigerian Twitter scammer. Iriodalo is a love scammer who faked health conditions to swindle women out of their hard-earned money.

Her story was among the top 10 per cent of the 1049 texts written in 25 languages submitted for the award from 102 countries. With the same story, Ms Bakare emerged as runner-up in the professional fact-check category at the 2024 African Fact-Checking Award held in Accra, Ghana.

About the award

Organised by The True Story Foundation, the True Story Award is a prestigious international journalism prize established to promote transparency and media freedom worldwide. The award recognises outstanding journalistic work in research, storytelling, and impact, with each category winner receiving a cash prize of $20,000. 

The True Story Award is part of the True Story Festival for facilitating discussions and exchanges among journalists and audiences. 

The foundation aims “to promote the creation of long forms of non-fiction and thus the telling of true stories worldwide. In doing so, it wants to contribute to society reaching beyond national borders,” the organisers stated.

The 36 nominees selected by the local Jurys (one person per nominated text) will be invited to present their work at the True Story Festival from June 20 to 22, 2025, in Switzerland.

Subsequently, the main jury will select the three best texts from the 36 nominees, who will be rewarded as follows:

True Story Award Research: 20,000 US$. 

True Story Award Storytelling: 20,000 US$. 

True Story Award Impact: 20,000 US$.

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