EDITORIAL
IMMORTALITY: BOGEY FATE DENIES
AFRICAN REPORTER 2ND
NOBEL PRIZE
For all of their contributions to the development of each
society that they find themselves,it is very strange but very true that no
product of excellent journalism has ever won the Nobel Peace Prize for once
save for once and it was for a job she did in Human Rights and not even for
press in Yemen.
For the second time in his over 15 years career ,The Founder
of Paedia Express ,Mr Abdulmumini Adeku has missed out of a possible place in
The Nobel Peace Prize, won only once by a Nigerian ,the International Scholar
and civil rights activist: Professor Wole Soyinka.
In 2009,after an encounter with the then President of
Nigerians Living in Libya,Mr Emmanuel Akpata, Mr Adeku upon an editorial
conference with Mr Richard Mammah ,The Editor-In-Chief of the pan African
newspapers:The Difference Newspapers both worked together and developed a new
feature editorial material titled:Life After Gaddaffi and this was published
and circulated by the journal around Africa.
Several months later,just as Mr Adeku had predicted in the report
that he authored several months before:Muammar Gaddaffi not only got removed
from office but was killed in still somewhat cloudy circumstances by a rebel
group that arrested him from his fortress called Bab Al Aziziyah Barracks in
Tripoli,Libya as the Arabd springs fever swept him away.
Till this day,Libya is a Theater of was and a land now ruled
by war lords and various forms of armed gangs as the central government in
place is not really effective ,simply put the Arab Bedouin nation is now a humanitarian disaster.
Considering, the international dimension of this report and
what the global community has lost due to the unrest in Libya till date, it is
very strange that this great son of Africa and perhaps other great products of journalism
and even people from other profession have not had any shot at this save for chemists ,physicists ,literary icons
,economists ,politicians, civil right leaders.
For example in the field of Public Relations,if a
propagandist helps the Nigerian government to broker a deal with the ferocious
Boko Haram,are we going to say that they do not deserve it?
The 2016 Nobel Prize
on Physics in which Mr Adeku’s analysis was used to give three British
scientists the award shows how effective but good and great journalism can be
of effect to the entire world.
Not winning the 2011 and 2016 Nobel Peace Prize is not the end
of the world to Mr Adeku and it is not even vital to him that if it will ever
be given then he should or must be the recipient but it is vital that robust journalism
of cutting edge standard is honoured by the Nobel Prize Judges Committee once
in a while.
Tribute must also be paid to Professor Ibrahim Gambari who
as an Under Secretary General at the United Nations was one of the pillars upon
which the global body had risen to its win in the past.
Then there was a Professor of Geography from the
University of Jos, Dr. Anthony Okon Nyong of the Department of Geography and
Planning, University of Jos, has been named a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize.
The university don who is a
member of the United Nations Scientists on Intergovernmental Panel for Climate
Change, shared the prize with former
American vice president, Al Gore. The announcement came barely 22 years after
Professor. Wole Soyinka won the Nobel prize for literature.
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Mr Abdulmumini Adeku is an international award winning
journalist of over 15 years standing, His professional works has fetched him
several accolades both at home and abroad.
Mr Adeku is a graduate of General Agriculture from the
Ahmadu Bello University,Zaria ,Kaduna state with a minimum specialization in
Genetics Engineering.
He has been :News Editor, Investigations Editor, Digital
Editor at several Nigerian newspapers among which includes Horizon Express ,The
Difference and Financial Standard
Newspapers .
His publications has appeared in Best of Business
magazine, Forward Newspapers, New York City and New Diplomat ,a journal on
promotion of investment opportunities in the Niger Delta region and read in the
diaspora..
He was once on the Editorial staff list of the
Business Times Newspaper, The Daily Times Newspapers,Brands and Products
magazine, all of whom he worked for as a staff reporter.
He was At The Comet Newspapers where he was the
Agricultural page editor aside from stringing for The Guardian Newspapers as
reporter on its finance desk.
He co- founded Economic News Media Enterprises which
published The First Voice and the Business and Economy Newspapers before they
were both rested due to funding and board room situations.
The same firm also operated an online news agency ,an internet radio station:GBN
LIVE 2 radio while streaming for a bouquet of stations digitally via
skydecoder.
He has attended several seminars, workshops and
conferences ;amongst which includes in 2004,The International Institute for Tropical
Agriculture [I.I.T.A] and Tuskegee University [U.S.A]Fellowship Program on
Biotechnology.
He was the Technical consultant/Business Editor and
The Business Development Manager of The Premier tabloid Newspapers
,Lagos,Nigeria between 2011 January till August,2013.
He achieved a milestone in Journalism in 2007 when he
was cleared to attempt the Guinness Boook of World Records by producing the
largest newspaper in page size and he
hopes to do just that very soon after stabilizing
his newspaper on the vendor stands from being a periodical to a weekly
newspapers.
A highly travelled journalist ,Adeku has covered the
activities of many organizations such as E.C.O.W.A.S,The Commonwealth of
Nations,The World Bank Group,Sickle Cell Society of the U.K.,Lions Club
International among others.
He pulled the plug out of a deal to go to
Tripoli,Libya in 2012 when the civil war raged after winning a grant to cover
activities that eventually led to the overthrow of Libyan leader :Muammar
Gaddaffi because his medical insurance benefits could not be assured by the sponsors
for the trip
It should have earned him $2,000 daily for reporting
as a war correspondent on the invitation of Gaddaffi.
In November,2012,he was in Accra,Ghana to cover the
elections for that nations Presidency and the general elections of that
nation,in the process he had an internship experience with Ghana World Newss
and Reports Newspapers in Accra ,Ghana
under Mr Yaw Mallet ‘s tutelage.
He was a guest of several corporate turks or titans at
the Kaneshie Industrial Complex ,Accra ,Ghana at the time.
On March,6th,2016,he was at the Igolo
Village in Republic of Benin to investigate several cases bothering on human
trafficking, extortion and migration in the area.
He has stringed for the German News Agency [Deutsche
Press Agency/d.p.a]between December 19th ,2012 to 2nd
April,2013 and again between June to August 2013 as a war correspondent. Dpa
had a working relationship and affiliation agreement with the Swiss News
Agency, Austria News Agency ,DPA –afx Business News and the European Press
Photo News Agencies at the time.
He had worked extensively in breaking news reports on
developments in Nigeria especially as it concerned the dreaded :Boko Haram
through DPA to a global audience.
As business Editor of The Premier tabloid Newspapers, he
edited 8 -10 pages of Business and Economic news per edition.
He also edited columns or pages like millionaires
mindset[a personal finance page, motoring and brands and marketing pages.
As Business Development Manager of The Premier
Newspapers ,he Was in charge of newsroom operations and other business pursuits
of the firm like special projects, advertising, circulation, marketing among
others
Upon resignation from the Premier tabloid Newspapers
on August 1st,2013 , he had a stint as Media and Communications
consultant to Lashone Links Group of Companies,a real estate and construction
firm with over a dozen subsidiaries.
He also had a stint as General Editor of The Difference Newspapers ,sold on the vendor
stands of at least eight African nations and in places where you have blacks
irrespective of nationality globally.
He re-opened his media business under a new name
called E.N.M. Paedia Express Multimedia Group on the 2nd of
September,2013.
Paedia Express Multimedia Group is highly respected
amongst its peers in the trade at any level worldwide as at today.
Mr Adeku is the recipient of not less than 37 media
milestones ranging from awards, nominations and recognitions amongst others for
journalistic excellence.
He was media advisor albeit on pro-bo-no to Former
Nigerian Head of State ,Major General Muhammadu Buhari when he ran for The
Presidency in 2011 elections under the Congress for Progressives Change[C.P.C]
banner.
Buhari who was Head of State between 1983 to 1985 was
to however win the 2015 elections after three previously unsuccessful attempts
at the position with a close shave at the Supreme Court in 2007 against the
deceased President Umaru Musa Yar’A dua.
He was the media and editorial consultant that
prepared the Business Week Newspapers published by late Mr Bola Onanuga now
deceased into the Nigerian market in October,2005.
He helped the firm to raise at least N2.5milion at its
maiden fund raising event held at Lagos Airport Hotel with the likes of
Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim and Chief Afe Babalola some of the invited guests.
He is the first man in the history of journalism to do
32 news reports in one day in the history of news agency reporting at any level
of the media game worldwide.
A serial entrepreneur
,Mr Adeku sits on the Board of several bluechips and charities aside from
consulting for others now and in the past.
He is a Christian ,single and hails from Ikuehi-Ihima
in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State of Nigeria.
He was born on the 25th of May,1972 in the
fishing town of Argungu in Kebbi State to the late Honourable Abdulraheem Adeku
and Hajia Halimat Adeku
He is a member of the Nigerian Union of
Journalists[N.U.J]among several publics he has professional interests or holds
membership in.
He loves to read ,report, write ,travel and build
relationships aside from other hobbies.
He is the chief promoter of a proposed university
project:Titcombe University having finished at Titcombe College ,Egbe in Kogi state in his formative years.
Titcombe College,Egbe is an Evangelical Church of West
African institution[E.C.W.A]
He is expected at the prestigious Lagos Business
School as a student in an agricultural business post graduate training after
winning the latter's grant very shortly.
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