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Promasidor Set To Reward Journalists

Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell Milk, has announced that its Quill Awards will hold on Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Lagos.
Head, Legal and Public Relations, Promasidor Nigeria, Mr. Andrew Enahoro, disclosed this in Lagos, adding that arrangements have been concluded to hold the debut edition of the awards.
He said the awards would be graced by notable personalities in the public and private sectors of the economy.
The ‘Promasidor Quill Awards’ is a platform in Nigeria to reward journalists for dedicated news reportage on industry, education, corporate social responsibility & nutrition issues all year round.
The awards cover five categories among which are the Brand Advocate of the year, Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report of the year, Most Educative Report of the year, Best Report on Nutrition and the Best Photo Story of the year.
Enahoro said as part of preparation for the awards the company has appointed five distinguished professionals in their various fields of endeavour as judges to select winners for the different categories of the awards, remarking that the judges were carefully chosen because of the regard the company attached to the awards.
He listed the judges as Ambassador Patrick Dele Cole, a veteran journalist who will serve as chairman of the panel; Professor Emevwo Biakolo, Dean of School of Media and Communication of the Pan African University (PAU); Mr. Jide Ologun, Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Lagos Chapter; Kadaria Ahmed, former editor of 234 Next, and Kelechi Obi Amadi, a renowned international painter and photographer.
Ambassador Cole, Special Adviser to The Guardian since 2002 and Delegate to the United Nations and the African Union (1976, 1989, 1989, and 1990) obtained a Masters Degree in History and Political Science from University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and in 1969 bagged a PhD from   Stephen Berhens Cohen College, Cambridge. 
Professor Biakolo was born in 1957 in the Delta State of Nigeria. He graduated from the University of Ibadan in 1978 were he had studied literature, philosophy and classics as a Federal scholar. He completed the M.A. in 1984, graduating at the top of his class and was awarded the doctorate in 1988. 
He later joined the editorial board of The Guardian and wrote a weekly column which commanded very wide following in Nigeria. Besides social and political questions, he was especially concerned with family issues in his writing.  
Jide Ologun, a principal solicitor at jide ologun & co is the chairman of the Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).
Kadaria Ahmed, an influential journalist, is a co – founder of Reinvent Media Limited and formerly senior producer with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 1996 and 2004. She was also the editor of the now defunct, 234next newspaper in Lagos.

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