A clash is on the way between President Goodluck Jonathan’s Neighbour 2 Neighbour and major Nigerian newspapers and magazines over the group’s failure to pay about 3billion Naira owed on pro-subsidy removal advertisements in favour of the president.
A clash is on the way between President Goodluck Jonathan’s Neighbour 2 Neighbour and major Nigerian newspapers and magazines over the group’s failure to pay about 3billion Naira owed on pro-subsidy removal advertisements in favour of the president.
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The group, which had previously served as Jonathan’s political pundits, surprisingly dabbled into the uncharted territory of becoming his pro-removal of fuel subsidy defenders. It then commissioned expensive advertorials in wraparound, center spread in the several print products as well as radio and television jingles.
Since then, and despite several promises to pay up without delay, the group has not come up with the money. Even the publishers, editors and adverts executives who stepped in as intermediaries are in a bind concerning an agreement that was reached that the money would be paid as soon as the January mass protest is over.
A credible source in Abuja told SaharaReporters, that the hardest hit is LEADERSHIP Newspapers, which is being owed for about 37 pages Vanguard newspaper, 23 pages; The Guardian, 21 pages; ThisDay, 17 pages; Sun, 35 pages; Blueprint, 16 pages; Compass, 20 pages; Daily Independent, 17 pages; Champion, 22 pages; Tribune, 30 pages; and Business Day, 6 pages.
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