David Hundeyin wins maiden financial crimes reporting award

Popular Nigeria investigative journalist, David Hundeyin has won the Financial Crimes Reporter of the Year award at the Governance Risk Compliance and Financial Crimes Prevention Awards (GRC&FINCRIMES Awards).

According to the convener Foluso Amusa, the main reason for the award is to reward selfless and bold individuals for their efforts in ensuring that their organisation and its systems meet regulatory and statutory requirements that are up to international standards.

Other winners of the award, according to Peoples Gazette, include Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, as well as Governor of Borno state, Babagana Umar Zulum. The governors bagged special recognition awards for supporting GRC and its initiatives.

Meanwhile, in another news, some suspected Boko Haram/ISWAP members have launched rockets near the airforce base on Thursday afternoon as President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Maiduguri to commission projects.

There was no immediate word on who fired the projectiles, but the rockets hit Bulunkutu Kasuwa, Ajjiri cross and Ngomari Ayafe in which 2 persons were said to have lost their lives according to our sources.

Witnesses told Tribune Online that some of the rockets had landed in Ngomari Ayafe neighbourhood, less than two miles from the airforce base where President Buhari landed.

It was the second of such strikes in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital since the 4th December attack.