Nigeria, Oct. 4 -- Two PREMIUM TIMES journalists, Folashade Ogunrinde and Bakare Majeed, have been shortlisted for the West Africa Media for Excellence Awards (WAMECA) organised by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).

Ms Ogunrinde is a member of PREMIUM TIMES' Investigations and Data Desk, and Mr Majeed was a member of this newspaper's National Desk.

The MFWA said this year's edition received 793 entries from more than 600 media outlets across 15 West African countries. The organisers said it received 335 entries from Nigeria, 101 from Ghana and 92 from Burkina Faso.

"The entries were filed by journalists from about 600 media organisations in the West Africa region," the organisers said.

Out of the 26 finalists, 11 are Nigeria...