- Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Shippers Council, Dr. Pius Akutah (right), congratulating the Maritime Editor of the Nigerian Tribune Newspapers, Tola Adenubi, for picking the Maritime Reporter prize at the 2025 Maritime Industry Merit Awards
The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Dr. Pius Akutah, has commended the Maritime Editor of the Nigerian Tribune Newspapers, Tola Adenubi, for excelling at the recently held 2025 Maritime Industry Merit Awards (MIMA).
Hosting Adenubi, who is also the Nigerian Tribune Assistant Business Editor at the NSC headquarters in Apapa, the Port Economic regulator called for professionalism in maritime reportage.
According to Akuta, “this award is one of the little ways of saying thank you to people who have done well, who have excelled in their field of journalism.
“Today, everyone is becoming a journalist because of social media platforms that have given them opportunities to write and critique, but the professional journalists who follow up stories and make sure that they dig into the truthfulness of what they are writing will always be there to excel.
“Irrespective of the prevalence of social media writers today, some people will always want to go with the traditional media rather than the social media practitioners because of the professionalism that comes with traditional media.”
Akutah further urged journalists to always remember that whatever story they want to come up with can damage or make someone. Therefore, they should always try to balance their stories for people to see the truth in their reports.
According to him, “journalism should not be about writing anything just for the purpose of writing. Professional journalists have to be concerned about what comes out as news to the public, because it is also about the writer’s identity.”
