JIMOH IBRAHIM NEWS WATCH STAFF MEMBERS SET TO SHUT DOWN ACTIVITIES OVER UNPAID SALARIES

Staff of Daily Newswatch newspaper, Newswatch magazine and National Mirror
newspaper are set for a showdown with their Publisher and Group Managing Director of
Energy Group, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, over unpaid salaries. While the staff of the
Newswatch titles are being owed five months salaries, those of National Mirror are
in arrears of three months salaries, it was learnt. However, Sources disclosed that
Ibrahim repeatedly tells his staff that he does not need outside intervention to
keep up with the payment of the staff. As a starting point, some of the aggrieved
staff of Daily Newswatch have vowed to stop the production of the newspaper with
immediate effect. One of them disclosed on Monday that if all goes according to
plan, the newspaper will not be on the newsstand beginning from Tuesday (today).
Things are said to have gone so bad that the payment of allowances have also
stopped. Yet, the publications are on the newsstand as regularly as they should be.
Ibrahim prints the all-colour Newswatch magazine from London despite failure to pay
salaries and allowances. For the Daily Newswatch, the situation could not have been
more pathetic. Owing to the unpaid salaries, the Sales Manager of Daily Newswatch
was said to have died on July 21, 2014 as he could not seek medical help when he
took ill. He was being owed since April when he died. This was despite the fact that
he was Ibrahim’s childhood friend. Since the newspaper also commenced publication
over a year ago, Ibrahim has failed to release the promised official cars to both
the Managing Director, Moses Jolayemi, and another top echelon of the outfit, Dr.
Bolu Afolayan, who was described as a childhood friend of the GMD. He is however
said to have released official cars to the Managing Directors of his other
subsidiaries who joined the Energy Group after Jolayemi and Afolayan. Many of those
who have been able to get their official cars are said to be women..