Reuben Abati

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Reuben Abati, born November 7, 1965 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, is a newspaper columnist. He is chairman of the editorial board of the Nigerian newspaper The Guardian.

He has won a number of awards including The Cecil King Memorial Prize for Print Journalist of the Year in 1998, The Diamond Award for Media Excellence for Informed Commentary in 1998, Fletcher Challenge Commonwealth Prize for Opinion Writing in 2000, and the Diamond Award for Media Excellence for Informed Commentary, 2000.

Reuben Abati has also been listed in "hate watch" because of the ethnic hatred and propaganda he has manifested against other Nigerian ethnic groups in many of his newspaper articles.