Nation Media Group stole the limelight at the inaugural Photojournalism Association of Kenya (PAK) awards gala at the Laico Regency, Nairobi, on Sunday night.

NMG’S Daily Nation scooped the highly coveted Photo Desk of the Year award as well as four in the other eight categories.
Nation’s Evans Habil won the news category with his iconic photo of Nasa principal Raila Odinga being whisked away by his bodyguards after police fired teargas at anti-iebc protesters outside Anniversary Towers.

Women still have a long road ahead in achieving gender equality, in spite of the significant gains they have made.

Whereas it is clear that girls are now outperforming boys in the classrooms — as was evident in the KCPE 2017 results where 22 out of the top 35 students were girls — women are still lagging behind in two very crucial areas; the corporate world and politics.

Two Nation Media Group digital products, Newsplex and My Network, beat entries from across Africa to win top honours at the 2017 Digital Media Africa Awards announced on Tuesday in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nation Media Group has become the first media organization in East and Southern Africa to join UN Women’s Global Media Compact programme. Launched in 2016 the ‘Step it Up for Gender Equality Media Compact’ partners with media outlets to implement the Sustainable Development Agenda, with a focus on gender equality and women’s rights issues through gender sensitive reporting and increasing the number of women in the media, including in leadership and decision-making roles. UN Women will work with the Nation Media Group to mainstream gender equality and women’s empowerment in the media house by providing technical support to ensure gender sensitive content generation.

Nation media Group (NMG) was on Thursday feted for being the most innovative company in a survey that recognised its revamped digital plan to attract a larger audience for its news and entertainment content.

The survey by Think Business also ranked NMG first on sustainable corporate social responsibility projects.