THANKS CHAIRMAN OBAIGBENA- 3 MONTHS PAID TODAY

3 down, one more to go. That's the current situation at ThisDay, where the workers had stopped working temporarily over unpaid salaries said to for about 4 months. After downing tools for a couple of days and subsequent negotiation between the management and the staff union, a middle point was reached today. The staffers were paid 3 months out of the said 4 months that was owed them.

So both sides have reached a compromise and work has started back at the newspaper company in earnest. So all we fans of our Sunday-Sunday tonic on lifestyle, ThisDay Style & Glitterati will get our weekly dose from this upcoming Sunday. It's a big hurray!!!

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THISDAY NEWSPAPERS TEMPORARILY SHUTDOWN!

 

PRINCE NDUKA OBAIGBENA, Publisher ThisDay Newpapers & Arise Magazine

It's not the best of times presently at one of the best Newspaper companies in Nigeria. As we speak or better still, as this report is coming out, the management of ThisDay Newspapers are doing all that's possible to try to negotiate with the staff union of the company, who are the cause of the shutdown. 

Major reason for the temporary shutdown from our investigation, is the prolong non-payment of staff members salaries owed for several months (Some say it's just for 3 months, others argue it might be longer than that). So when the aggrieved staff members couldn't cope no more with unfulfilled promises of we would soon pay, they resorted to industrial action culminating in the shutting down of production at the award winning newspaper company headquarters in Apapa, Lagos. 

According to our investigations, the company has temporarily shifted operational base to the Protea Hotel, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos since Wednesday, May 8, 2013, where key staffers are temporarily working from, so that the readers wouldn't miss getting their regular dose, ThisDay style. We hear printing is been done at Jimoh Ibrahim's Mirror Newspapers. According to unconfirmed reports, the staff union members nearly had a confrontation with the chairman of the company in the person of Prince Nduka Obaigbena, with many vowing to manhandle him if he had appeared. 

We don't know how soon the present cul-de-sac would be sorted out. But as soon as progress is made we would inform our readers. 

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LAGOS & LONDON GETTING READY FOR LANRE ALFRED'S HIGH LIFE: THE AMAZING LIFESTYLES OF NIGERIA'S RICH & FAMOUS

AKOGUN LANRE ALFRED

Olanrewaju Alfred is one of the best society/entertainment writers Nigeria has ever come across, presently he is the group society editor at ThisDay newspaper, where he holds the reins on the society pages of glitterati magazine, which has become the sunday, sunday medicine of the high and mighty. 

There's a way, the wordsmith constructs and pen is pages that has endeared it to all, even while lampooning his subject sometimes, he fetes & serenades them to high heavens before stylishly opening their can of worms for all to see. He daily moves around with and rub shoulders with the colossi of businesses and the decision makers in our clime.

As we speak, the society writer extraordinaire is putting finishing touches to one of the best things to happen to the literary world in Nigeria. We have tagged it- Something beautiful, something great, something 'unputdownable', this way comes, it's called High Life:Amazing lifestyles of Nigeria's rich & famous. The 300 pages of well researched coffee table book, is an all colour, all gloss work that chronicles the lifestyle of the super rich, the famous and very influential that dots our clime. It showcases our multimillionaires & billionaires, as they wine & dine & relax amidst very plenty. It's  revelation into the world of the very 'liquid'.

In the words of the author- ''The literary effort intends to fill a void amidst the deluge of news and literature markedly representative of contemporary industry Titans & Celebrity Journalism.

The first of its kind in the Nigerian media space, this 300-page coffee table book, with foreword written by Bashorun Dele Momodu, is a product of many years of research and journalistic odyssey spanning over a decade, seeks to record the most incisive and fascinating happenstances and personages, high-flying corporate entities and celebrity culture.

It is billed to serve as a remarkable archive of the faces and brains behind Corporate Nigeria's most brilliant and extraordinary business forays, as well as the amazing, yet, didactic lifestyles of the creme of Nigeria's high-society. 

So get ready to hear about the the lives of those who make the economy move, the highly placed and gloriously influential, wheelers & dealers, the business colossi who opens doors in all parts of the world. Get to see them cruising their Gulf-streams, Bombardiers, Citations, Embraers, Cessnas, Learjets etc, driving in their Lamborghinis, Mesaratis, Bugattis, McLarens, Ghosts, Phantoms, Maybachs, Aston Martins, Ferraris, Bentleys etc, cruising around the waters of Lagos, Monaco in their impressive Yachts. Check out their palatial edifices called homes around the world, which gives those still dreaming a glimpse of what heaven would look like. It would also give you an insight into the playthings of the super rich, their collections of Audemars Piguet, Rolex watches, Cartiers, Patek Phippe, Baume & Mercier, IWCs, etc.

So come the month of April 2013 at a date yet to be announced in Lagos, venue is the  Muson Center on the Island and then in London, the people who make things happen would gather to launch the book & celebrate at the same time a jolly good fellow, who though quiet, has learnt to wine & dine with the people who count and by extension also called one of their own. The one, the only Akogun Olanrewaju Alfred.

We hear that those who know have already booked many copies ahead for their libraries. Right as we speak, the final touches to the highly anticipated book is being done in Dubai, the UAE.

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ANOTHER BIG ONE FOR NDUKA OBAIGBENA AS ARISE Media Launches Global TV Network

GLOBAL LAUNCH OF ARISE NEWS

PRINCE NDUKA OBAIGBENA

 After two days of test broadcasting, a 24-hour international TV news operation set to rival existing giants in the global market will ‘soft launch’ today, February 4, 2013, broadcasting from its main News Centres in London, New York, Johannesburg and Lagos.

ARISE NEWS, will have a strong African footprint and serve undeserved communities in the USA and other parts of the world, supported by a further eight bureaux around the globe stretching from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro.

A sister channel, ARISE 360, which will be entertainment-based with fashion, music sport and pay per view films, will start broadcasting toward the end of this year.


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The 'arrival' of the network was announced by company executives in London and New York.
Chairman and Editor in Chief of ARISE NEWS and ARISE 360 is a leading African media entrepreneur, Nduka Obaigbena, owner and publisher of the global glossy style, fashion and culture magazine, ARISE, and the publisher of several other titles including one of Nigeria's biggest and most influential daily newspapers, THISDAY.

Mr Obaigbena said: ‘We will attract a global audience interested in emerging markets, developing countries and evolving politics. With headquarters and bureaux throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, we are ready to speak to our audience and give them a voice as well.
‘We are a new international network established to reflect the new world order not hardwired to the old and built to reflect the modern way news is consumed. Nowhere is this more important than in the emerging economies.’
Mr Obaigbena stressed: ‘There will be no state funding and no state agenda. Our coverage will be balanced, comprehensive and completely independent.
 
‘Our efforts will concentrate on robust journalism anchored on imperatives of the marketplace.’

Rob Beynon, a former executive producer with ITN and Sky News and now International Head of Operations at ARISE NEWS, said a team of TV news experts had been assembled from around the globe.

Lyne Pitts, a former Vice President of NBC News and an Executive Producer with CBS America is heading up the US operation from a vast studio complex in New York.

Ms Pitts explained: ‘We want to present programming that truly reflects the voices of America, not just a small slice but the racial, ethnic and socio-economic diversity of this country.

‘From that perspective ARISE NEWS will cover all issues education, health, politics and the criminal justice system. From Main Street to Wall Street, from the G8 to the Grammy's.’

Director of US New and Operations is award-winning broadcaster Gary Anthony Ramsay who has covered conflicts from Kosovo to Iraq.

Nigerian born John Chiahemen, a former Reuters bureau chief, has been appointed Managing Editor - and Head of Africa.

David Glencorse, a former Sky News anchorman, international reporter and Royal Television Society award winner, is the Global Editorial Director of the company.

Nick Jennings, a former Head of International News at Sky News is Director of News and News Gathering.

And Gavin Hill, until recently an award winning ITV producer of documentaries is Director of Features.

James Blue, formerly an Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer with ABC News Nightline and NBC Today has been appointed Director of Current Affairs and Special Projects based in Washington.

Said Mr Blue: 'We want to tell the untold story, the stories of achievement and celebration. So much is happening in the world of business and so much is happening in the world of culture and sports. We want to cover all of that and provide people with stories on our stations they would never see anywhere else.'

Jeff Koinange, an Emmy award winning reporter and formerly CNN's star Africa reporter will be based in Johannesburg as an anchorman and correspondent.

Debbye Turner-Bell, a former CBS correspondent (and former Miss America) will be a regular anchor for ARISE America.

South African born Heather Scott, a former Sky News anchorwoman and business correspondent, will take on the role of roving anchor and correspondent.

And Neil Stainsby, formerly a senior director with the BBC has been appointed Global Lead Director across ARISE NEWS.

Michael Wilson, formerly Business Editor with Sky News is Global Business and Economics Editor with ARISE NEWS.

He said: 'We at ARISE NEWS see Africa as the new frontier and we know it is open for business. The markets feel the same.

In the last decade Africa's overall growth rates have quietly approached those of Asia. According to projections from the IMF, on average Africa will have the world's fastest growing economy of any country over the next five years. ARISE News will uniquely cover the changing face of Africa with in depth analysis.’

ARISE NEWS was welcomed at the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, by senior politicians and business leaders around the globe.

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said ARISE NEWS would give a boost to young people living in Africa.

‘The future is in the hands of young Africans themselves. The more channels like yours that can make young people proud of Africa, the more we’ll see young people seizing the opportunity’.

Trevor Ncube, Executive Deputy Chairman of the Mail and Guardian Media Group in South Africa said: ‘ARISE NEWS is the fulfilment of a dream we’ve had for some time. Unless we begin to tell our own story we’ll continue to complain about the perceptions held about Africa in different parts of the world’.

African oil baron, Adewale Tinubu said: ‘I think it’s wonderful that ARISE NEWS is launching. It’s a first class step in the right direction and a logical progression from ThisDay newspaper and ARISE magazine.’

ARISE NEWS will be live on cable, satellite, mobile devices, and the internet twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

'Wherever and whenever there is a major breaking news story, we will cover it aggressively, especially on the under-reported continent of Africa,' said Global Editorial Director, David Glencorse.
"We will take advantage of the latest technology and social media to bring real-time interaction with newsmakers and news events. Our international focus is on global news and current affairs from a distinct perspective, while ARISE America will focus on US news and current affairs through the eyes of communities currently ignored by mainstream media'.

ARISE News will offer advertisers a unique reach amongst an affluent and influential audience.

Following the test broadcasts of last Thursday and Friday, the ‘soft launch’ phase will begin today (Feb 4) and lead to a full broadcast operation in March.

ARISE News is broadcasting across Europe on SKY Channel 234. The company is currently negotiating other major distribution deals across the globe.
LONDON
7 St. Martin’s Place, London, WC2N 4HA, United Kingdom.
NEW YORK
401 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
JOHANNESBURG
160, Jan Smuts Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa.
LAGOS
35 Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria. Enquiries by email: info@arise.tv
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