Nigerian journalist wins trip to AfDB annual event

Nigerian journalist Oluseyi Awojulugbe.

APO Group has announced that Oluseyi Awojulugbe from Nigeria, has won APO Group’s invitation to attend the African Development Bank’s 2019 Annual Meetings, which will take place in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, from 11-14 June 2019.

APO Group will offer one round trip ticket and accommodation in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) for Oluseyi Awojulugbe to attend the African Development Bank’s 2019 Annual Meetings.

The Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank is an annual rendezvous for leaders from across Africa and around the world to discuss the state of the African economy against the background of leading issues and developments in the global system.

Awojulugbe (25) is a senior business reporter with Nigeria's independent online newspaper, The Cable newspaper. In 2018, she was named a finalist at the Africa Check Fact Checking Awards. In the same year, she also emerged a finalist in the tax category of the PwC Media Excellence Awards. She has participated in various trainings and has reported from local and international conferences, the most prominent being the annual and spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Washington and Indonesia.

APO Group is the leading media relations consultancy in Africa and the Middle East, offering organisations a range of advisory services alongside its press release distribution and media monitoring solutions. Each year APO Group offers journalists the opportunity to attend major events as a part of its commitment to supporting journalism in Africa.

APO Group also sponsors the APO Energy Media Award and the APO Media Award, where a journalist wins $500 a month for one year, one laptop and one intercontinental flight ticket to a destination of his or her choice as well as one year of access to over 600 airport VIP lounges.