QUALITY CONTROL AT
ENM PAEDIA EXPRESS MULTIMEDIA OUTLINED
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
Everyday I move
around the length and breadth of the entire globe in search of
editorial materials
That will not just enliven people across all board but make
policy makers to act.
I wake up in the dead of the night to go through the web
,read various forms of literature's, speak to Shamen,watch video footages,
listen to audio feeds ,analyze pictures of various events,go under cover just
to build up an editorial item suitable for publication.
My entire apartment even doubles as my private study as I
never throw away documents because of
the commitments I have made towards the profession.
I also speak to various sources ,consult documentations in
my attempt at making sure that nothing but the
truth is published by Paedia
express multimedia.
But on the 4th of February,2015 I was accused of
an official fraud by an Abuja resident ,Mr Abdulwahab Isah,To back up his
claims to his convictions he introduced the God factor into the equation .
When we started the company and ran it between 2005 till
2009 we had a lot of things we wanted to
sort out especially as to the kind of journalism we wanted to be known for by
the general public.
In September ,2013,when we re-opened the brand under brand under its present name
we wanted it to be regarded as the only one that speaks the truth even at its
own expense.
This was in line with the vision I had seen and discussed
with Pa Moses Illoh during a private meeting in his office in 2011 at the rot
in the Nigerian Press[television ,radio, web, newspapers ,news agency among
others]
We discovered that a lot of the mainstream media in Nigeria
usually concentrated on items from Reuters, AFP, AP, News Agency of
Nigeria[N.A.N]Aso Rock policy statements, Event coverage ,foreign sports
especially European Football Leagues.
In further analysis of our groundwork , we also discovered
that on an average day the top 15 to 20 newspapers in the land usually had the
same reports on there front covers,with some even quoting words of each other
verbatim .
Though this is all noble but investigative journalism which
is the bedrock of true journalism, suffered
and this we decided to pay strict attention to if we had to set Nigeria
on its true path to greatness.
In our surveys,we discovered that a Trillion ire business
tycoon turned politician ,Ashiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu had brought the press in the South West.
Editors and media owners were placed on special salaries,got
lots of perks like landed properties and had houses even built for them from what our investigations
revealed.
So I decided that I was going to do the following?
1]report all details from Abuja only if I could lay hands on
exclusive details
2]report a lot of development within the south West axis and
any other All Progressive Congress
controlled state since the mainstream Nigerian Press was silent on this
as they had been bribed to silence by Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
3]I also resolved to report exclusive details on global
issues while also treating the Boko
Haram insurgency in similar manner.
In Abuja Reports for example
we have reported albeit exclusively about the bad drinking habits of Dr Goodluck Jonathan ,his porous security
network, his poor performance during an interview with CNN’S Christine Amanpour
,2015 electioneering strategies .
In the south west where people call the capital of the
Nigerian press,we have swung our attentions to what others gloss over.
Repression and organized crack down in dissents like the
forgery reports which we reported severally about The Guardian Newspapers, The Comet Newspapers, and The
Nation Newspapers. The inability or complete failure to pay workers salaries and bad labour
policies were given a lot of attention in our reportage.
We have also reported on the man who made the press
practically impotent ,Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as we have featured reports on his health as
it concerns his drug addictions ,we have looked at his wealth and what made him
thick politically.
We have also taken a deep look at Governor Babatunde Raji
Fashola has been doing at the Round House and the suitability of the in coming
Mr Akinwunmi Ambode.
When the General Muhammadu Buhari certificate issue came up we did not say that
because we love his face then he has become immune to investigations and then gloss over it like others will do,we
took him on.
When The Punch Newspapers,Nigeria best newspapers flouted a
media code on elections we wrote about this exclusively as others watched while
the decay in the press continued.
Last xmas I got a message that all editors and publishers
were been feted by Governor Fashola but I did not go for reasons best known to
me ,so by the special grace of God am not as cheap like a whole lot of people..
When the Ebola crisis came up,we threw everything into the
ring, we opened up a mini-crisis desk of
our own and asked members of the public
to give us a call if they spotted anything unusual ,we even helped the state to
nab a dubious firm in the process of investigating .
I,Abdulmumini Ireyi Adeku ,donated my own blood sample to a
blood bank that complained of a shortage ,all in a bid to make sure that things
go well for Nigeria and humanity, Infact it is the criminal enterprise called
Nigeria that has benefitted from me rather than the other way round.
I volunteered to travel with a Nigerian government
delegation to fight Ebola Virus in Sierra Leone but was dropped at the last
minute.
Out of about 60 reporters that were given the opportunity by
Dr Jide Idris ,Lagos state Commissioner For Health on the day the offer was
made in the company of other state officials I was the only reporter that
offered to help out and even this is in there Records officially if they want
to come out clean,so what happened to the other reporters at the scene?
In global reportage ,we have broken a lot of grounds,for
example we got valuable quotes when Malaysian Airlines one and two either got
missing or crashed,we also insider accounts
when a Nigerian died in an Air Algeria flight from Ouagadougou heading
to Algiers.
We got insider quotes from the killing of a Nigerian student
at the University of Coventry couple of years back ,aside from several
exclusives we ran on the Ebola crisis among other global situations.
In the light of the recent killings at French weekly
satire,Charlie Hebdo,we have also resolved as an entity to call all forms of
religious extremist groups: beasts.
We believe that all religion share similarities in kicking
against adultery,fornication,stealing,lying among other related bad social vices.
We believe that despite fundamental differences in doctrinal
principles ,all world religion will have to live together in harmony whether
they like it or not ,at no time will everybody become a Muslim or a Christian
or any other faith for that matter .
We believe that no religion will in its name approve the
killing ,maiming of men and women ,kidnapping of children and girls for sex
slavery hence as an organization we have
decided to call them such things like savages ,beasts, satanic forces and any
other words that will suit there activities….
In all of this the
fear of God was always my motivation and not any form of earthly pecuniary
benefits .
Like every human being I do not claim to be perfect but to
the best of my knowledge everything I do can be subjected to tests and
investigations .
I am compelled to write a picture of my style of leadership
at Paedia Express Multimedia because I
am pained at been accused of spreading falsehood deliberately.
We have a procedure for quality control and this we have
subjected every form of reports we have
ever published irrespective of whose axe is gored and this is how it will
continue till God takes me home.
In line with my respect for Freedom of Speech which I was so
denied for the better part of my career but for the social media ,Mr Abdulwasiu
Isah’s private conversation with me on the 4th and 5th of
February ,2015 can be read below uncensored.
He was not trying to correct Paedia Express Multimedia for
an error he spotted on our news alert bulletin but was practically celebrating
our error thus criminalizing my mistake .
My professional conducts in about 14 years of services to
humanity via journalism is enough to state clearly that we do not represent
anyone but are an independent media just
as we have always set out to be from the beginning.
My friend
wrote on FB:
I have made up my mind to henceforth be fair and just to both candidates contesting for the office of president. I won't greet one without mentioning the other's name, so I wish BUHARI GOODLUCK!!!
I have made up my mind to henceforth be fair and just to both candidates contesting for the office of president. I won't greet one without mentioning the other's name, so I wish BUHARI GOODLUCK!!!
Na wao, its really been a long time,
hope u re gud
Wednesday 1:14pm
Remita! !!! Tinubu's pension
collecting firm indeed.... If u re a Muslim u wld ve known d consequences of
spreading falsehood.....
Thursday 1:51am
dear wasiu,
we do our best as professionals and
to keep the public informed with the dictates of the profession
i do not know about others but i do
not indulge in the art of deliberate falsehood
i have burnt down the effigy of The
Guardian Newspapers,The Comet Newspapers, and The Nation Newspapers in the past
so i will not run foul of the same offence
we have a system of quality control
which we subject all our news and other forms of editorial content to
in about 630 reports since we
reo-opened under a new name called Paedia Express Multimedia only once have we
been found wanting and this is over 99 percent accuracy
we will continue to serve everyone
and if you know of information that can enrich people feel free to send them we
will publish
God bless you and stay blessed
I beg to differ from the opinion you
have of yourself & your media outfit, I genuinely followed you for a while
and became disinterested when I noticed the trend
DEAR WASIU
we have no problems with anyone
other than the facts that we have before us
A little of investigative journalism
would have afford you the opportunity of information about Remita, apparently
you never did.
if you have anything to the contrary
come forward with it and we promise to do what every right thinking human being
will do
which is to publish
& whatever false information you
peddle would pitch you against the righteous and progressives...
Do your work diligently and it would
show
wasiu ,God who created you and i
sees my heart ,i can only live him to judge me
i was given an information by a
senior civil servant in the ministry of justice in lagos state and i wrote that
though in fairness we have not exhausted the investigations
so i did not stay under the shades
of a tree to cook it up like you alleged
You have already indicted yourself
by publishing unverified information and you call yourself a professional. I
feel embarrassed anytime one of my own is guilty of unprofessional conduct
dear wasiu,are you thinking of
helping us to grow as an organization or interested in our downfall
except you have anything that shows
to the contrary then i will suggest you look elsewhere as am not the one to
help your tirade
but if you have news and information
for us tell us and we will help you to propagate them
My candid opinion, some of your post
I have read reeks of bias and partisan tendencies. That is my honest opinion
i am not a politician,i was a card
carrying member of the c.p.c in 2011
"Help me to propagate" I
don't understand the statement
i was in buhari's media team but
when he went to join A.P.C where Tinubu who owned the firms i had worked for in
the past was involved i can only smell corruption and nothing more
my editors forged my reports at The
Guardian Newspapers and at The Comet Newspapers,Tinubu conspired against my
interests so what do you want me to believe about him ,ohh that he is a good
man because he is rich?
You last statement shows naivety in
my opinion. Because APC was birthed out of that merger doesn't signify Buhari
dropping his robe of fortriteness for that of corruption. Except if you don't
know him
i interviewed over 50 people in over
eight years on the funsho williams case and did not just wake up one day to
accuse Tinubu despite he defrauding me in the past
Meanwhile that is not my interest.
Mine is just a caution for you to tread on the path of the righteous so our
country would have hope for the fiture
i am a hard core professional and i
have done my best ,i have rejected money where a lot of my colleagues have been
paid
so if you have news give us we will
publish,we do not lie when we publish
The Remita you have spread falsehood
about is owned by a Kogi indigene. A man of high repute who never give
kickbacks in his entire career. Whose organisation has always tread the path of
honour believing in God to succeed
i did not do a second check
but you can furnish me with more
information,their is a difference between deliberate falshood and an error
And you call yourself a
professional!!!
i am not perfect even the best media
firms in the world make errors but if you brief us more we can do a follow up
Tinubu family have stolen up to one
trillion from lagos wealth and this is the submission of the opposition during
a governorship debate,they have done a lot of inhumane things to people ,so
even when some body says what is not true about them it will be difficult to
disbelieve
Where is the professionalism?
they are not who you think they are
professionalism:i do my utmost best
but only God Almighty is a pro
I don't have any business with
Tinubu and all other corrupt politicians rather than to say "a day of
reckoning would surely come" sooner or later
i know them more than you because i
worked for them
but about deliberate falsehood that
is not me you are talking about
If you don't do your work diligently
then those that would accuse of deliberate falsehood are right because you put
your self in that situation because of inability to abide by the ethics of your
profession
i have nothing else to say since it
appears this is leading to a dead end
Because you have refused to own up
to the fact that you failed to be professional in publishing this story
You are not ready to help me but you
are interested in my downfall
By pointing out that you publish
falsehood?
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