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Sunday, October 06, 2019

GOCOP has done great as professional online publishers says Adesina - ITREALMS.

The presidency has applauded the members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) for raising the bar in online journalism reports ITREALMS.

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, disclosed this in Lagos, declaring that GOCOP members are thorough-bred professionals.

Delivering his goodwill message at the just concluded and well attended third annual conference of GOCOP, which held elaborately on Friday at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, Lagos, where he represented his boss,
 thumbed up GOCOP members.

"GOCOP has done great. It is my pleasure to be here. Remember, I have always attended all your events because I believe in you and what you are also doing online as professional journalists.

“In fact, I helped in setting up GOCOP. I am very happy because GOCOP has kept its standards since inception.
“GOCOP has done great and has also helped to bring sanity to the online space.
“Truth is that GOCOP has done better than some traditional media houses, who now rush to publish just anything.”
While speaking further, Adesina, a former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Sun newspaper, called on Nigerians to support their leaders, adding that no country is totally secured.
In addition, he said Nigerians need to pray for the country and her leaders.

“We also need to join hands together to make Nigeria great. Nigeria is a success to still remain a united country, despite all what we have been through.

“Nigeria is a work in progress.”

Chuks Egbuna/Editor
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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Corpsocracy of Buhari, sons of Shimmei and deteriorating minds by FFK

I am convinced that President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, has now finally lost his mind. In his latest essay, titled “The Sons of Shimmei”, he compared Buhari to the biblical King David, the greatest King that ever ruled Israel.

One is constrained to ask the following question: what on earth is Davidic about Buhari?

King David was a Spirit-filled believer and a heroic and courageous child of God whilst Buhari is a son of perdition and a tyrannical servant of satan.

In what can only be described as a chilling and irresponsible manner Femi also said that Buhari could have “cut off the heads” of his opponents, meaning he could have had them assassinated. Gosh. Jumping Jehoshaphat! What has happened to my old friend? Poor old Femi.

He has just made a cardinal spiritual blunder the consequences of which I have no doubt that he will deeply regret.

In this game you must never threaten your opponent with death because once invoked the Angel of Death usually returns back to sender. I shall pray for Femi because I want him to live long and prosper.

I knew that he was frustrated but I never knew he was a man of blood.

I never knew that he and his leader believed in murder as a tool of governance.

Yet the truth is that the Lord will see to it that they pay a terrible price for even thinking of taking the life of their detractors and political enemies both in this life and in the next.

The truth is that God alone gives and takes life and whether they like it or not He guards His own jealously. The Bible says “touch not my annointed and do my prophets no harm” . Consequently no-one is intimidated by Femi’s implicit death threat.

One thing is clear though: he ought to be mindful of the fact that whilst he and his associates are planning to take someone else’s precious life they may end up losing your own. Examples of such a course and turn of events are replete in the Holy Bible.

Femi mentioned the great Abishai who was a biblical hero in his own right and one of David’s strong men and allies.

Abishai and David’s other strong men were courageous and righteous men who undertook a noble cause, who shed the blood of evil men and who fought against tyranny.

To compare members of Buhari’s cabal to David’s strong men is like comparing Queen Helen of Troy to a Bombay whore.

One is regal and queen-like in all her ways whilst the other is nothing but a cheap back-street, “short-time”, aides-infested woman of questionable character and easy virtue.

Femi has done a great disservice to Abisha by mentioning his name in the same sentence as the cabal.

I say this because he was a soldier of truth and a gallant man of honor.

This is not the case with anyone in Buhari’s cabal. They are the opposite to the Abishai’s of this world. They are the darkness that seeks the darkness. They are desperate predators who drink the blood of their innocent victims and who feed on their flesh.

They prey on the weak, they destroy the young and they torment and slay the old, the vulnerable, the defenseless and the weary.

Buhari did not emanate from a righteous lineage or noble stock. He is not a child of light, a Prince of Zion or a son of the Living God. He does not have a noble heritage and neither is he a servant of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

He is not a David but a Pharaoh, a Sennacherub, a Herod and a Jezebel all rolled into one. He is a wicked, unforgiving, sadistic, bloodthirsty and vengeful Amalekite.

He has no Abishai’s around him. He has no Joab’s, no Samuel’s and no Nathan’s either. He only has the Absalom’s, Haman’s, Judas’, Jezebel’s, Dalila’s and Ahitophel’s of this world in his inner circle and evil cabal.

His spiritual foundation is nothing but garbage and that is the tragedy and weakness of his Presidency.

That plus the fact that he does not know or fear the Living God and he does not respect the rights of the Nigerian people.

If he did he would have resigned long ago and handed over full power to his number two, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

Finally Femi wrote “when Buhari returns home some people will bury their heads in shame”. He is wrong.

The truth is that when and if Buhari returns home some people will prop him up and pretend that he is well enough to be President until he falls sick and goes back abroad again.

It is called “corspsocracy” and it is defined as “the rulership of the living by the dead”.

That is Nigeria’s biggest burden and challenge today. An ailing President who already has one foot in the land of the dead, who can never be the same again, who will NEVER return to be a full and active President yet who stubbornly refuses to step down and resign.

Instead of telling us that his principal can “kill us all” and “chop off our heads” Femi should consider the monsters failings and chronic ill-health and advise him to resign honorably.

That is what a real believer and a true man of honor would counsel his sick boss to do and not try to intimidate those of us that are in the opposition with blatant, vulgar and bullish threats of death and assassination.

The path of blood is a dark and unpredictable one. I advise Femi not to take it.


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Monday, August 17, 2015

Buhari won't demand 'killing' of stories - Adesina



The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has reassured Nigerians and media practitioners that his principal, would not request any journalist to ‘kill’ stories for him, reports ITRealms.


Speaking at the weekend at a dinner hosted the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Adesina said that instead, the administration would encourage newsmen to run stories that will critically examine the workings of government and provide it with the way forward.


President of GOCOP, Mr. Malachy Agbo, was quoted in a press statement available to ITRealms as saying that Adesina gave this assurance on Thursday at a dinner held for him and other presidential spokesmen by the online publishers.


Agbo also said that at the dinner hosted by GOCOP members were the Senior Special Assistant on Media to President Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, and the Senior Special Assistant in the Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande.


In his remarks, Adesina said the first thing the President told him when he assumed office was “Always tell me the truth,” stressing that Buhari was emphatic when he equally told him that as a General he loved to argue, but would always bow to superior arguments.


"The President told me 'Please do not fail to argue with me,'" Adesina who is one of GOCOP Trustees said, insisting that Buhari has vowed to run an open and transparent government so much that he would have nothing to hide and would have no cause to want to ask for any story to be ‘killed’.


Equally he revealed that the only thing Buhari asked is that for any news item, the Presidency should be allowed the opportunity to state its side before being putting same in the public domain or the going to press.


Adesina applauded the online publishers for coming together to form a group, advising GOCOP to look out for spoilers, gate crashers and those who might hide under the canopy of online publishing to damage the reputation of innocent public officers.


"There is a saying that one bad coin can spoil hundreds of other coins. My advice is that you should not allow any of your members to use the platform to malign innocent people. You should also find a way of sanitising the social media practitioners who just sit in their bedrooms to churn out news without professional touch," he counselled.


Also speaking, Garba Shehu expressed thanks to GOCOP for the support they gave him when he handled the media and publicity department of All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council as Director.


According to him, the APCPPC was the poorest in terms of resources, “but the richest in terms of people’s goodwill. And the online publishers were the greater part of that process."


Similarly, Laolu Akande, acknowledged the contributions of online media and social media in the actualisation of the Buhari Presidency. 


He advised Nigerians to adopt the government as their own because “this is the change we have been talking about.”


Welcoming GOCOP guests earlier, Agbo assured the presidential spokesmen of the support and cooperation of the members, even as he appealed to them to always make themselves available for any news item that requires clarification.


He was confident that members of GOCOP, who are veterans in the journalism profession, would continue to support them with prayer to achieve success in their assignments.


Several other GOCOP members who spoke at the occasion commended the presidential media team for recognising the important role of the online media in modern information dissemination and appealed to them to keep it up.

 
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GOCOP dinner: L-R: Senior Special Assistant on Media to the President, Malam Garba Shehu; Special Adviser on Media to the President, Mr. Femi Adesina; and the President, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Malachy Agbo, at the dinner for the presidential spokesmen. 

Friday, August 14, 2015

Adesina advises media to learn from 2015 general elections reportage



The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina Thursday formally presented the report of the media coverage of the 2015 general elections to the public with a call on the media practitioners to digest and learn from the recommendations.
 
Mr Adesina who spoke in Abuja while presenting the book, “Reportage of 2015 Elections: Monitoring Scorecard of Print and Online Media”, enjoined the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) to ensure that it is widely circulated.

The project jointly undertaken by the International Press Council (IPC) and the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) was funded by donors- EU, UKAid, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development under the Democratic Governance fore Development (DGD) Project managed by the UNDP.

According to the Presidential Media Adviser, it was good that the 2015 electoral process was measured and evaluated, saying it would guide media practitioners in the coverage of future elections.

While noting that there were lapses in the media reportage of the last general elections, Mr Adesina however, posited that "the negatives and positives are work in progress”.

The UNDP’s Media Advisor, Mrs Toyin Gabriel, who also represented the DGD Project Director, expressed delight that after a long process, the IPC and NPC were able to produce a world class report that can stand the test of time.

She said the project was undertaken meticulously with a view to proving that there are Nigerian institutions that can deliver high value project. 

Mrs Gabriel said the stake was very high to deliver a product that the sponsors can be proud of and thanked the contributors for a job well done.

In his review prior to the presentation, the Director, International Press Centre, Mr Lanre Arogundade, said the scope of the project covered six-month period from November 2014 to April 2015.

He said 12 national newspapers were monitored during the period. They were- Daily Sun, The Nation, National Mirror, Vanguard, The Punch, ThisDay, Daily Independent, The Guardian, Nigerian Tribune, Daily Champion, Leadership and Daily Trust.

Also monitored were 10 regional newspapers - Nigerian Chronicle, Daily Star, Nigerian Observer, Nigerian Pilot, Abuja Inquirer, Peoples’ Daily, Blueprint, The Gleaner, Desert Herald, and Fresh Facts.

In addition, four online newspapers- The Tide, The Cable, Sahara Reporters and Premium Times as well as three social media platforms - Enough-is-Enough Nigeria, Reclaim Naija and INEC were monitored.

Mr Arogundade said “The period covered meant that it was possible to assess the performance of the concerned media outlets, prior to, during and immediately after the elections in the five topical areas of use of sources, conflict sensitivity, language use, coverage of issues and coverage of the election management body”.
 

+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms)
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Monday, July 20, 2015

Boko Haram takes Buhari to Obama



Details of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the United States of America have emerged as the President’s Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina said the official visit will “strengthen and intensify bilateral and international cooperation against terrorism in Nigeria and West-Africa.”

ITRealms reports that threat posed by Boko Haram militants is expected to top the agenda. According to the statement, President Buhari will meet with the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and the Secretary of Defense, Robert Work.

The two presidents, along with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, ITRealms gathered, will also likely discuss proposed political and economic reforms in Nigeria aimed at ending widespread corruption. The four-day trip is Buhari's first to Washington since being elected in March and taking office in May in a landmark peaceful transition of power in Nigeria.

Buhari will meet with West African diplomats, World Bank executives, and members of the U.S. Congress.  He is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting with Nigerians on Tuesday.

U.S. relations with Nigeria, ITRealms reports, soured over failures by the government and military  to locate more than 200 schoolgirls, most of them Christian, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram from the northern town of Chibok in April 2014. The abduction led to international condemnation and a campaign to “Bring Back Our Girls” that reached as far as the White House.

The former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan was reportedly angered by the U.S. refusal to sell his government helicopter gunships and retaliated by halting a U.S. military training program. However, relations between the two countries are expected to improve under Buhari, a 72-year-old former military dictator who has pledged allegiance to democracy and promised to address U.S. concerns.

Buhari’s visit to Washington barely two months after taking office is said to be indication of  the  importance the U.S. places on relations with Nigeria. Obama extended the invitation immediately after Buhari was declared the winner of the March election.

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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Adesina urges online publishers on credibility, as Haruna stresses importance




The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has urged Nigerian online publishers to guarantee the credibility of their publications so as to bolster the future of online media, reports ITRealms.

Speaking as a guest at the official unveiling of an online newspaper, Sundiata Post in Abuja Tuesday, Mr. Adesina noted that the call is to assure the sector is not awash by unenthusiastic publishers.

“There is this saying that bad coins tend to drag good coins out of circulation. So, if we leave online publishing for the bad ones, the good ones cannot make a difference,” he said, stressing that the good, the bad and the ugly among online publishers do exist, but is need to have more of the good ones, because it would be for the betterment of the country.

In his keynote address, the former Chief Press Secretary to General Abdullsalami Abubakar, Mallam Mohammed Haruna, while dwelling on “Has Online Journalism Come of Age?” noted that the invention of the Internet had transformed journalism into a truly all-comers’ trade.

Haruna said the question has become imperative due to the assumed conflict between online media’s speed and old media’s core value of accuracy.
“This assumption is largely false. Depending on how much in a rush one is, there has always been conflict between accuracy and speed since the emergence of mass media in the 19th century. The difference is that the new media, in its rush to be in real time in the news, seems more wired to sacrifice accuracy on the altar of speed than the old media,” he said.

The implication, Mallam Haruna pointed out is that online journalism tends to be less reliable than the offline journalism and on this ground, it could be argued that online journalism is less mature than the mainstream journalism.

Chairman of the occasion and the Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr. Emeka Mba, defined online journalism as a media for the coming generation.

Represented by the Director, Public Affairs at NBC, Mr. Awwalu Salihu, the DG equally urged online publishers to focus carving integrity for themselves alongside accuracy and professionalism in order to have the buy-in of the society and its needs.

In his remarks, the Publisher, Sundiata Post Online Newspaper, Mr. Max Amuche, said that credibility and professionalism would continue to be the catchphrase of Sundiata.

As said by him, the publishers under the aegis of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) came together to make certain that the activity of the media is self-regulated.

Also speaking, the National Vice Chairman of GOCOP, Musikilu Mojeed, said proprietors of online media in the country are accomplished professionals, some of who rose from mere reporter to topmost management positions in some of Nigeria’s leading dailies.

GOCOP, Mr. Mojeed said, has been busy in the past months training its members on ethics and the latest trend in the media industry.

He disclosed plans by GOCOP to soon name charlatans who pass off as online newspaper publishers.

Mojeed emphasised that the GOCOP is partnering relevant Nigerian authorities to descend heavily on thieves who plagiarise the work of its members, even as he reiterated the determination of the organization to sanitise the online media industry.


+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) in Abuja


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