Nigerian Navy Photograher Wins Golden Fox Award At Calcutta Film Festival

A Petty Officer Journalist (POJNL) Usman Dauda Abdulkareem of the Nigerian Navy, has won one of the Golden Fox Awards of the 2019 Calcutta film awards in India.

Abdulkareem is attached to the office of the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas.

According to the Information Officer, Nigerian Navy, (Dinfo) Commodore Suleman Dahun said in Abuja on Tuesday that POJNL Abdulkareem picked the award following his submission of a movie script titled: “Grand Father’s Address”, which was adjudged winner of the feature script category.

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The winner, a prolific writer, is the author of two books: “Diary of a Peasant Child” and “African Cowboy”. In his acceptance remarks, POJNL Abdulkareem thanked the CNS, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas for his support and encouragement and dedicated the award to the Nigerian Navy for providing him the platform to showcase his talent as a journalist particularly in photography.

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