Sekyen Dadik, the Acting Executive Director of the AMDF, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja.
Dadik said Judges for the 2022 AMDF Journalists of the Year Award, led by Joseph Edegbo, Managing Editor of Africa Prime News, said they received entries from Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.
According to him, the finalists are Alexander Okere of the Punch Newspapers, Janet Ogundepo, also of the Punch Newspapers, and Sunday Isuwa of Leadership Newspaper.
He said: “The finalists have demonstrated professional skills in their stories by going deep in writing issue-based development stories.”
He also said an Honorary Lifetime Award for Journalistic Excellence will be presented to distinguished media veteran, Yunusa Aliyu of the Newage Network Limited, Kaduna, for his contribution in promoting development journalism in Nigeria.
The AMDF Journalist of the Year Award was first introduced in 2016 to promote the culture of in-depth development journalism in the African media space.
The emergent winner would be announced during the 2022 Africa Conference on Development Journalism (ACDJ 2022) holding online on December 7.
The annual conference brings journalists and other media stakeholders together to exchange ideas that will address current and emerging issues facing development journalism.
It is also meant to create a community of learning that will support the growth of Development Journalism in Africa.
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