Daily Trust Invites
Daily Trust Invites Nomination for African of the Year
2019 Award
A leading independent newspaper in Nigeria, DAILY TRUST, has
called for nomination of exemplary personalities for the coveted
African of the Year 2019. Nominations are open from August 19, 2019
to October 18, 2019.
In a statement issued at the weekend, CEO/Editor-in-Chief of
Media Trust Limited, publishers of DAILY TRUST, Mr. Mannir Dan-Ali,
said ideal nominees should be ordinary Africans who have made
extra-ordinary contributions to humanity in any field from any part
of the continent.
Mr. Dan-Ali disclosed that the award consists of three components,
namely, a permanent plaque, a certificate of merit and a cash
reward in aid of the awardee or his/her chosen charity project.
Valid entries for the 2019 award will be for works, events or
activities undertaken by the nominee between October 1, 2018 and
September 30, 2019 and nominations are to be made online at
award.dailytrust.com. The eventual winner will be selected by a
seven-member prize committee chaired by his Excellency, Mr. Festus
Mogae, former President of Botswana.
Other members of the Committee who represent Africa’s regional
blocs are: Ambassador Mona Omar (North Africa), Mr. Amadou Mahtar
Ba (West Africa), Ms. Gwen Lister (Southern Africa), Mr. Pascal
Kambale (Central Africa) and Professor Sylvia Tamale (East Africa).
The Chairman of the Board of Media Trust Limited, Mr. Kabiru Yusuf
represents the award promoters.
Now in its 12th edition, the African of the Year Award was
inaugurated in 2008 by DAILY TRUST in fulfilment of the newspaper’s
commitment to African unity and sustainable development across the
continent.
With this annual award, Mr. Dan-Ali said the newspaper hopes to
entrench the culture of selflessness among Africans with the aim of
creating a pool of role-models for others to emulate.
The maiden award was presented to a Congolese gynaecologist, Dr.
Denis Mukwege, in recognition of his exemplary humanitarian offer
of free reconstructive surgery to victims of rape in the war-torn
Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. He also won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2018, which is 10 years after DAILY TRUST, recognised his
remarkable humanitarian gesture.
Last year’s award was won by five Kenyan Girls (Stacy Owino,
Purity Achieng, Ivy Akinyi, Synthia Otieno and Macrine Atieno)
(2018), for developing a mobile application that is used in helping
to tackle Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Mannir Dan-Ali, CEO/Editor-in-Chief, DAILY TRUST.
Email: mdanali@dailytrust.com
Sunday, August 18, 2019