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The journalists of the Fourth Estate nominated for this year’s edition of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Media Awards have boycotted the event. This was confirmed in a statement issued on Thursday, November 6, 2025. It linked the decision to a suspicious collaboration between the GJA and KGL Technology Limited. The company, a Lotto Marketing Company (LMC) which is a headline sponsor of the award scheme, was previously uncovered by the news agency as having received a ‘questionable’ licence from the NLA—a licence that essentially handed over the NLA’s most profitable business to KGL. The media organisation says it has since observed a series of events that suggest the GJA may be allowing itself to be used to counter or undermine the public-interest revelations by The Fourth Estate on the state-fleecing NLA-KGL deal. It noted that it will be “unconscionable on our part to accept a KGL-sponsored award.” It believes that accepting such an award will be to benefit from the proceeds of the same terrible NLA-KGL deal that it has been exposing. “While we will cherish any public or institutional recognition for our work, we will not do so at the risk of compromising our conscience. Indeed, it will be unconscionable on our part to receive a GJA/KGL media award when just about a month ago, KGL sponsored a GJA event and used it as a platform to describe our work as ‘irresponsible and sensational’.” Story by Hajara Fuseini
