APC govt working as a syndicate group, not a team----Hon. Emu

---as indigenous publishers tasks on creativity

The All Progressive Congress [APC] Led Federal government had been described working as a syndicate group and not a Team.

‘’A good team is better than a collection of Experts working across board. Team is the first level of Innovation in the World, that is the point where everybody is multi-tasking, but this is what the APC government lacked.’’

The Delta State Commissioner of Economic and strategic PLANNING, Hon Emu stated this while fielding questions from Community Newspaper Publishers in the state recently.

According to him, President Buhari first action in Office contributed to the Recession the country is struggling to get out from.

He noted that the President refusal to retain Key Economy players like THE FORMER Finance Minister, Okonjo Iwela, and Director of Budget caused a whole lot of set-back to the nation Economy.

‘’These are very strategic persons that he should not have allowed to go, it is not because you love them but it is because you need them to move the Country forward.’’ he said.

He also pointed out that the activities of Niger Delta Militants brought the production of oil to 27% as against 77%, which reduced the revenue generated from Oil, yet Delta state government was able to maintain the same run-head that the state had when the Economy was booming as regards to returns from IGR.

‘’In Delta, we saw our worst in ‘MAY-JUNE’ 2016 when  we received 3 Billion and you know that has a lot of implication on our IGR. But that also helped the Government, Individuals, families the opportunity to look inward. We started creating Jobs through small scale and medium Enterprise. We were able to create 32,000 Entrepreneurs ’’ he said.

However, when other state governments were preaching diversification,’’ we were already marching words with action by creating policy that is favorable to Agriculture. While the next step for us is to approve the Industrial parks which takes on the Niger Delta formation structure to enable us attract notable Investors and create Job under the out goers Scheme. ‘’

Meanwhile in a ceremony organized in Asaba on September 22, 2017 for Publishers of community newspapers in Delta State by the press unit of the state government have tasked community newspapers on the need to create contents specifically targeted on their immediate environment and explore the limitless benefits of online and other social media platforms.

The workshop which had as its theme “Excellence in Publishing” was declared open by Mr. Jackson Ekwugum, the Manager of Communication to Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. 

Mr. Ekwugum commended the indigenous publishers for reporting activities of the Okowa administration. He expressed the desire of an improved working relationship between the state government and the media entrepreneurs.

According to him, if publishers of community newspapers in Delta State are well established, it will create more jobs because “it falls under the micro credit empowerment policy of this administration”.

A Commonwealth Professional Fellow and Fellow,Nigerian Guild of Editors,Taiwo Obe who spoke on what is news and digital efficiency for profitable publishing, admonished the indigenous publishers not to compete with more established National media in terms of news contents, but to create contents that directly affect their immediate environment positively, so as to remain relevant in business.

The veteran journalist whose vision is to raise the next generation of first -rate Nigerian journalists, tasked the media proprietors to explore the boundless advantages of online journalism and other social media platforms.

Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Mr. Ehiedu Aniagwu who spoke on"objectivity Vs Editorializing (A case study of the S.M.A.R.T. Agenda) tasked the participants to keep tab on local laws and regulation in their reportage so as to be objective in their contents.                 

Imirror gathered that the workshop was attended by newspaper publishers across the three senatorial districts of Delta State also featured resource persons such as Chido Nwakanma, Ogbenyi Egbe and a representative of Shimite Bello, Executive Secretary of Delta State Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises' Development Agency.