The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) has honoured geologist, publisher and past winner of the CNN African Journalist award, Toyin Akinosho, with the 2022 Geosciences in the Media award.
Akinosho’s co-recipient of the award is Albert Dickas of Blacksburg, Virginia, US, a statement signed by the AAPG president-elect, Gretchen Gillis, said.
The statement said the AAPG executive committee approved this year’s AAPG honours and award recipients, “recognizing individuals for service to the profession, the science, the Association and the public.”
Reacting to the award, Akinosho, who is the publisher of Africa Oil and Gas Report, said: “I won an unsolicited award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. I think I have to rearrange myself?”
Akinosho, a former The Guardian on Sunday columnist and co-founder of Committee of Relevant Art (CORA), was in 2012 named alongside seven others as a fellow of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) where he served for many years as secretary.
In 2015, he received the “top award of the latest edition of the “Big Five Awards” conferred on distinguished oil industry players at the annual Africa Oil Week in Cape Town, South Africa for their contribution to excellence in Africa’s petroleum industry.
Akinosho was conferred with the award for what the organisers described as” having the courage of his convictions.”
