Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- A Premium Times journalist, Saviour Imukudo, has emerged as the first runner-up in the 2025 edition of the Ray Ekpu Prize for Investigative Journalism.

The award, jointly sponsored by the Inoyo Toro Foundation and Thompson and Grace Investment Limited, recognises excellence in investigative reporting and celebrates the legacy of veteran journalist Ray Ekpu, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine.

Mr Ekpu, one of Nigeria's most decorated journalists, received the International Editor of the Year Award in 1987, an honour bestowed upon him in New York, United States. He holds the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger.

In its first three years, the annual prize conferred a single awar...