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Daily Trust has called for nominations of exemplary personalities for the coveted African of the Year 2022 award. Nominations are open from September 12, 2022 to midnight of October 24, 2022.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Media Trust Group, Publishers of Daily Trust and owners of Trust TV, Mounir Gwarzo, said ideal nominees should be “ordinary Africans who have made extra-ordinary contributions to humanity in any field from any part of the continent.”
Gwarzo disclosed the award consists of three components, namely, a permanent plaque, a certificate of merit and a cash reward in aid of the awardee or his/her chosen charity project.
Valid entries for the 2022 award will be for works, events or activities undertaken by the nominee between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022, and nominations are to be made online at award.dailytrust.com.
The eventual winner will be selected by a six-member prize committee chaired by Festus Mogae, former president of Botswana.
Other members of the committee who represent Africa’s regional blocs are Mona Omar (North Africa), Amadou Mahtar Ba (West Africa), Gwen Lister (Southern Africa), and Rigobert Minani Bihuzo (Central Africa).
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Media Trust Group, Kabiru Yusuf, represents the award promoters.
The Group CEO emphasised that a winner will emerge, strictly based on the selection criteria and not the number of entries submitted on his/her behalf. He said presentation ceremony for the 2022 edition of the African of the Year Award would hold in Abuja, in January 2023.
The maiden award was presented to a Congolese gynaecologist, Denis Mukwege, in recognition of his exemplary humanitarian offer of free reconstructive surgery to victims of rape in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. He also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, which was 10 years after Daily Trust had recognised his remarkable humanitarian gesture.
