Economic Confidential has, in Abuja, emerged “Nigeria’s Magazine of the Year 2016” for its incisive, in-depth and effective reportage of the country’s economy spanning a decade.
The awards, instituted by the Abuja Newspaper Distributors Association (ANDA), is intended to recognise media houses who have within the year impacted on the lives of Newspaper distributors and vendors.
Speaking at the award ceremony, ANDA President, Comrade Joshua Orogun, said that “the Economic Confidential magazine has carved a niche for itself and its selling point of being the only Magazine in the country that provides continuous and unbroken reportage of the monthly disbursements of funds from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last ten years and still counting.”
Comrade Orogun further said that apart from the incisive, indepth and effective reportage of the nation’s economy, Economic Confidential has continued to set agenda for the government as part of efforts to get the economy out of the woods.
He commended the unique marketing styles of Economic Confidential in delivery to special subscribers and clienteles and the generous discounts and occasional free distributions to vendors despite the prevailing economic downturn in the country.
Receiving the award, a highly-elated Hajia Sikrat Yushau Shuaib, Managing Director of Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR), publishers of Economic Confidential and its 247 online edition, thanked the organisers for deeming the publication fit for the awards. She stressed that the development would spur the media outfit to do more, especially contributing its quota to the rejuvenation of the nation’s economy.
Other winners at the Award Ceremony included Daily Trust as “the Newspaper of the Year”, LEADERSHIP for Best Friendly Newspaper and The AUTHORITY as Promising/Future Newspaper.
IMPL had recently won the Golden World Award on Crisis Management from the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) through its PRNigeria services. It publishes the Emergency Manager’s Digest and Youth’s Digest magazines.
•Photo showsPresident Abuja Newspapers Distributor Association, Comrade Joshua Oyegun (Left) presents the “Magazine of the Year Award” won by the Economic Confidential to the Managing Director, Hajia Sikrat Yushau Shuaib, while the founder of the magazine, Mr. Yushau Shuaib looks on at the presentation ceremony in Abuja.
