Stake holders of the West African Pilot News (WAP) emerged from a long weekend meeting in Houston, Texas with an endorsement of the publication’s street edition in Nigeria. The preview of the print edition which was unveiled at the meeting received a unanimous endorsement of all participants – mainly board members and a handful of prospective investors.
WAP’s Chief Executive Officer Professor Chris Chinwe Ulasi confirmed that the publication proposed as a weekly newspaper could come as early as May 2020. “We are still negotiating with stakeholders and investors about logistics and could get this baby on the Nigerian streets before summer of 2020,” he said.
West African Pilot News also WAP was officially launched on January 1, 2020 as a political, community, and business-focused, English-language international news site targeting news and events in the Sub Saharan Africa with emphasis to Nigeria. “The whole idea if you may recall” said WAP’s President, Professor Anthony Obi Ogbo, “was to resuscitate and invoke the same fighting spirit of the West African Pilot News of the 30s, and again give the common man a voice over a surmounting political, social, and economic environment”. Lunching print copies on the Nigerian streets sums up that philosophy,” Dr. Ogbo said.
Dr. Ulasi said WAP has been in collaborative talks with specific Nigerian-based publishing and distribution companies to jumpstart the print edition pending a proposed set-up of its own facility. West African Pilot News, along with the Pilot TV are a subsidiary of the PILOT MEDIA INC., an American-based multinational mass media corporation with focusing mostly in News, television, and film.
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