2015:NIGERIAN PRESS FACE FRESH HARSH TIMES

2015:NIGERIAN PRESS FACE FRESH HARSH TIMES

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

MRS DIEZANI ALLISON -MADUEKE,NIGERIA'S VERY POWERFUL PETROLEUM MINISTER IS BELIEVED TO BE THE MASQUERADE BEHIND THE UNION NEWSPAPERS,LAGOS

……………………………………………..Sam Nda-Isaiah is simply pathetic at Leadership Newspaper group

………………………………………….Newswatch in six moths debt drama

……………………………………….The People who destroyed The Guardian Newspapers in Nigeria unveiled

……………………………………….Over N600 Million goes down the drain at The Union Newspapers as crisis consumes Emma Agu.

The Nigerian print media sector is currently enmeshed in another wave off crisis.

Forensic Checks  by  Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria  as at press time showed all sorts problems ranging from self inflicted crisis, debt problems and mismanagement of resources as at press time.

At the Leadership Newspapers in Abuja, Nigeria for example ,Mr Sam Nda Isaiah ,Publisher of the newspaper group instead of sacking Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene ,Former Executive Director of The Punch  Newspapers who should never have been employed in the first place at Leadership Newspapers for unethical conduct in the past as a media practitioner gave his lackey a pat on the back by giving him a soft landing instead of summary dismissal .

The media magnate gave Mr Ishiekwene a new position as an Executive Consultant of the company  and in this new role his name will probably no longer be on the mast head of the brand but the media executive will  continue to do his old job and draw up allowance and salaries just like before as the Nupe Born magnate turns himself into a pervert.

Ishiekwene’s latest round of corporate nightmare began after Paedia Express Multimedia ran  an exclusive report recently titled:Sam Nda Isaiah’s hypocrisy detected ,days after the latter lost out in the keenly contested All Progressive Congress [A.P.C.]3^rd National Convention and Presidential Primaries recently.

At The Newswatch Newspapers,it was discovered   that due to the recent cases concerning the company in court it had since changed its name from Daily Newswatch to Newswatch Times.

A source told this reporter that he resigned his appointment from the firm only in November,2014 as he was tired of been continually owed salaries.

He affirmed that he had been owed five months before his decision to throw in the towel and repeated complains by the workers against this usually meets with a brick wall as the publisher Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim  usually tells them that anybody who was not satisfied with what he has given them should resign and do his own business.

In the wake of the deadliest forgery scandal to ever hit the newspaper business anywhere in the world,Paedia Express Multimedia can now reveal those that have helped to destroy The Guardian Newspapers in Lagos,Nigeria.

The Publisher Late Mr Alex Ibru and his wife, Lady Maiden needs no  introduction but others are Mr Thomoupolous is the Chief Operating Officer ,Mr Lade Bonuola is Managing Consultant ,Eluemuno Emeka Izeze is the Managing Director , Mr Debo Adeshina is the Editor –in-chief, Deacon Martins Oloja is the Editor, Jewel Dafinone is General Editor, Chief ade Ogidan is Deputy Editor, Business and Economy,

Some times in November,2014 it was gathered that over N668Million had gone down the drain at The Union Newspapers in Lagos ,Nigeria due to mismanagement .

A source who had just tendered his resignation at the time told Paedia Express Multimedia that he was been owed five moths salary  but quickly added that if he was not paid he was going to sue the company.

He revealed exclusively that the project was been bankrolled by the Minister For Petroleum,Mrs Diezanni Allison Madueke  but that despite injecting as much as N668million into the project she has northing to show for it as at press time.

He pointed out that the war over who controls the company’s resources and  calls the shot between Mr Emma Agu  ,its erstwhile Managing Director and Mr Obi Azuru is taken its toll on the brand.

The source speaks:”Azuru feels he started the project and should have been allowed to handle it but that Agu hijacked it from him,I think that there were moves to settle them as Agu is the CEO and Azuru is the Advisory Board Chairman of the company “

“I do not think that the crisis has  gone away as the air of mistrust in the firm still reigns “

As at press time,Mr Emma Agu ,The Chief Executive officer of the Union Newspapers had been kicked out while his nemesis,Mr Obi  Azuru remains in the firm.