Two Nigerian journalists make shortlist for African Fact- Checking Award

Two Nigerian journalists, Ajibola Amzat of The Guardian Newspapers and Adedayo Oketola of Saturday Punch have been named among seven finalists for this year’s African Fact-Checking Awards.
The award is to honour the best investigative fact-checking carried out by African journalists this year which exposed misleading claims made by leading public figures across the continent.
Amsat’s entry is entitled State of the Living Spring gasps for breath while that of Oketola is Nigcomsat-1R becoming while elephant four years after.
They are competing with five other journalists from Zimbabwe, Kenya, Cameroun, Zambia and Swaziland.
The shortlist of the finalists was from130 entries from more than 20 countries.
According to the organisers the award, Africa Check, an international jury will now decide on a winner and two runners-up. The awards ceremony will hold on 10 November in Nairobi at the Reporting Africa conference organised by the African Media Initiative. The awards are co-sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation and AFP news agency.
Full details of the award is available at : https://africacheck.org/how-to-fact-check/the-african-fact-checking-awards/