The United States Embassy for Nigeria took to their verified Facebook page to congratulate Afeez Hanafi, a correspondent with The PUNCH newspaper for winning the 2020 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award.
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They wrote:
Congratulations to Afeez Hanafi, a correspondent with The PUNCH newspaper for winning the 2020 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award, a competition sponsored by Citi Bank. His winning entry focused on the fading glory of a model training and research farm abandoned and brought to the brink of ruin by local authorities. I
n 2021, Hanafi will join other winners from across the world for a business and financial reporting workshop at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Well done!
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK