 Now, winners have emerged at the maiden edition of the GYBSE competition for Nigeria's political and crime editors and leaguers. The competition was sponsored by the Kogi State Governor, Jochaya Bello, the governor represented by his chief of staff, tasked participants on accuracy and responsibility. Plasti Vafrika's correspondent, Destiny Momo Hasmo. The winner of this ESE competition. It is an evening of glitz and glam, and the presentation of awards to senior journalists that participated in the GYBSE competition for political and crime editors. The governor of Kogi State, Yahya Bello, is represented here by his secretary to the state's government for Lashadi Ayoade and accompanied by the commissioner for information, Kingsley Fawo. They both say they thought it wise to reward the work of journalists who were hardly seen. They also want journalists to set the agenda for politicians to follow. Where you report an incident really has a lot to do with the response of the masses. And we decided that it will not be fair to just reward the correspondents alone. We decided to also reward the editors. The governor decided to launch this annual event to be able to reward journalists and also to be able to shape our agenda-setting role as media practitioners. A cash prize of two million Naira was awarded to the winner from PUNCH newspaper Auguste Navode and the first runner-up from the nation newspaper Emmanuel Oladossou got one million Naira and 500,000 Naira went to the second runner-up from these day newspaper, Chiemille Aizubi. Five others got consolation cash prizes of 200,000 Naira each. I feel happy and I want to use this opportunity to thank him so very much. I'm pretty happy that at least I won something today and I'm grateful to organize as the Kogil State government. Key media professionals say the award will encourage journalists. They also commend the governor for rewarding excellence in the media. It's very unusual for state governors or government officials to come up to give as something like a self-assessment without prompting. And I think that's what Governor Eya Bello did. This will bring out the excellence in you, bring out the ingenuity in you and also a way of assessing what you also do on a deliberate basis. If you now have a government that feels that the media are doing pretty well, so we should also come up with a design to encourage or get them performed better, then that's an ingenious move. The SA competition is planned to be a national event, destiny moment for Plus TV Africa. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.