TheCable nominated for Africa Fact Check prize as reporters shine at PwC media awards

TheCable, Nigeria’s independent online newspaper, has been shortlisted for the Africa-Check award.

Oluseyi Awojulugbe, a reporter of the newspaper, is among 15 finalists for the award which is scheduled to hold in Johannesburg, South Africa, late October.

Awojulugbe was shortlisted in the Best Fact-Check category for fact-checking a claim on job creation made by Chris Ngige, minister of labour.

The minister had claimed that the Buhari-led administration had created 7 million jobs.

Africa-Check is an organisation promoting the accuracy of information. Its annual awards honour journalists in Africa-based media in the growing field of fact-checking.

Four reporters from four other Nigerian newspapers were shortlisted and two Nigerian students were shortlisted in the student category.

Franz Kruger, chair of the jury for the awards, highlighted the quality of fact-checking by students: “In…