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Meet Taiwo Alimi (Nigeria) Winner (Print Category) 2024 AMDF Journalist Of The Year Contest

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Taiwo Alimi is the Assistant Editor, The Nation On Weekend, having worked as  Reporter at Daily Independent Newspaper before joining the Nation 2012.
Alimi holds Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication and has attended UK Multi – media course at Thomson Foundation, London.
Alimi sojourn in journalism has attracted him several professional awards including DAME Award in Sports, NMMA Reporter Award, NMMA Foreign Report Award and Africa Union RIATT-ESA Media Award in reporting Child Marriage In Africa.
What brought out Taiwo Alimi to add another feather to the aforementioned, was his story titled ” Travails of Lagos Community Displaced By Conglomerates Climate change”.
The Reporter narrates bitter experience of locals who are located near multinational industries and companies using Ibeju- Lekki as a case study.
The story highlights the massive effects of the climate change on the locals.
The story sees  Ibeju- Lekki as a New Lagos defining projects in Nigeria such as  multimillion dollars Sea Port and Dangote Refinery.
The reporter observes that while Lekki outwardly wearing a vestige of opulence, affluence and prosperity in the land, the other side is the heartrending tales of natives and environs living the paucity and abject poverty.
To worsen the situation, the activities of these conglomerates are fast tracking incidences of climate change to the detriment of the locals who are predominantly fisher men, boat and net makers, and traders in aquatic produce
Apart from depriving the locals their livelihood, the story unearths the buying  and barring the locals from their natural endowment couple with action and inaction and wealthy conglomerates in the area.
In the course of the investigation, the land owners were afraid to speak out seeing the reporter as working for Government untill the intervention by a leader of thought in the area before they agreed to voice out their bitter experiences including those highlighted by the reporter.
Both Government officials and the conglomerates had also declined to talk until they were confronted with the findings by the Reporter.
Taiwo Alimi, by bringing to fore, the adverse effects of operations of the conglomerates and industries on the locals of Ibeju- Lekki, you have demonstrated the best practice in Journalism and therefore acknowledged you as the winner ( Print Category) of the 2024 AMDF Journalist of the year contest.

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