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The Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) will honour Ademola Osinubi, the immediate past managing director of Punch Nigeria Limited, with the lifetime achievement award.

The 31st edition of the award, which will hold in Lagos on December 11, will also honour Ted Iwere, the founder of SME Media Limited, and Dotun Oyelade, a former journalist with Broadcast Corporation of Oyo state, with honourary fellowships.

According to the organisers of the awards, 15 media houses will also receive honours in areas such as reporting, commentary and design.

“Aside from honouring individuals and organisations with career-boosting recognitions, the awards provide media scholars and professionals, policy formulators, and regulators with the welcome annual feedback on the state of media practice,” the organisers said.

“In all, 39 nominations have been made in thirteen categories from which will emerge overall winners in the newspaper and Editor of the Year categories.

“The breakdown of the nominations shows that of the fifteen media houses shortlisted, two account for fifteen nominations, three have ten nominations amongst them, while ten organisations account for the remaining ten nominations.”