Two distinguished pension editors, Modestus Anaesoronye of BusinessDay Newspaper and Chuks Udo Okonta of Inspenonline, yesterday, won the 2026 Outstanding Pension Journalists Awards. The 2026 Media Excellence Awards, the maiden edition was organised by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) to rewards journalists who were outstanding in reporting the activities in the pension sector of the nation’s economy.
While Mr. Chuks Udo Okonta won the online Category of the Award, Mr Modestus Anaesoronye emerged victorious in the Print Category and, Ini John-Mekwa of Channels Television won the Broadcast Category and each winner went home with N1million cash prize. Three nominees were nominated for each category.
Presenting the awards during 2026 PenCom Media Conference to the winners in Ikeja, Lagos yesterday, the Director General of PenCom, Ms. Omolola Oloworaran commended them for their exceptional reporting and encouraged them to keep doing their best to enlighten and educate the public on pension while increasing awareness and penetration in the process.
“We acknowledge your good works and we want to appreciate you. We urge you to keep doing your best. PenCom and its activities need to be communicated to Nigerians in a very simple and understanding manner. So, I congratulate you all. Let all journalists be intentional in their works” she urged.
Beaming with excitement, the winners appreciated the regulator and colleagues for acknowledging, rewarding and supporting their works and pledged to do better.
Going forward the award will be annual as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the pension industry regulator.
