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Oluwasegun Olakoyenikan emerges the first runner-up in the Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist category at the 2021 African Fact-Checking Award.

The category was won by Jean le Roux from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Lab in South Africa.

Reagan Kiyimba of Uganda from Makerere University won the Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist category. Fatma Mbacké of Senegal from CESTI Dakar emerged the first runner-up in the Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist category.

The winner of the best fact-check in the category for working journalists is awarded a prize of $3,000 and the runner-up takes $1,500. The winner of the students category takes home $2,000 while the runner-up collects $1,000.

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Winners have emerged at the 2021 PwC Media Excellence Awards.

The PwC Media Excellence Awards celebrates and rewards excellence in business reporting in Nigeria. The competition is open to professional journalists on a full time employment or freelancers, working in Nigeria, who have produced a story that falls within the categories covered by the award and that is available on a platform whose primary audience is Nigeria.

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