Category: Art, Media & Entertainment

“Madu” by documentary filmmaker, Joel Kachi Benson, has won the Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary at the 2025 News and Documentary Emmy Awards held in New York.

This is the first Emmy Award ever attained by a Nigerian documentary film.

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Nigeria’s Digital Awareness Programme (DAP), an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has won the 2025 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prize in Category C3: Access to Information and Knowledge.

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Twelve-year-old Fiyinfoluwa Adeniji has emerged overall winner of the the third edition of Visionary Voices, in the Visual Arts and Painting category.

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Aaron Ajogwu has emerged overall winner of the inaugural Babalakin & Co (B & C) Art Exhibition, held to mark the firms 37th anniversary.

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Bidemi Babalola, a research archaeologist at the British Museum in London, has received the 2025 Dan David Prize, the world’s largest award for historical research.

Bidemi Babalola was honoured with the $300,000 prize at an awards ceremony held in Italy on May 28, 2025.

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Ibrahim Nureni has emerged as the first Nigerian and African winner to be honoured at the Maya International Haiku Contest.

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Samuel Kọ́láwọlé has emerged winner of the 2025 Whiting Award in the fiction category for his work ‘The Road To The Salt Sea’.

He is one of ten writers who will each receive $50,000 to help support their craft.

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