Reference Nigeria hits news-stands

Reference Nigeria, a weekly newspaper with an online version at www.referencenigeria.com, has made an entry into the Nigerian newspaper market. Reference Nigeria, a general interest newspaper with special interest in consumer reporting and protection, is set to create mass awareness for consumer rights.

The bottom-line is to help consumers get value for their money by exposing sharp practices perpetrated against them by electricity companies, banks, air-lines, telephone companies, goods vendors, public institutions and public office holders.

Every week, the newspaper delivers up to the market a balanced diet of well researched new stories, incisive features and top drawer columns in Politics, Brands and Marketing, Money and Capital Markets, Consumer Experience, Global Jobs, Market Analysis, Maritime, Insurance, Auto Art, Real Estate, ICT and Energy. Readers will also find delight in other sections like Harvard Business Review, Industry, Business Communication, Book Review, personality interview, Labour, Entertainment and Style, and Sports,.

Reference Nigeria, edited by Goke Ilesanmi, former acting editor of Financial Standard, and columnist with The Nation, is promoted by a team of seasoned journalists and businessmen. Leading the team is Iboro Otongaran with Emmanuel Egbabor, as deputy managing director.

Otongaran is an experienced journalist and communication artist. He was the founding editor of Moneywise, Nigeria’s premier personal finance newspaper and former head of Money and Capital markets at Financial Standard.

Egbabor, an award winning journalist and well read economist, was deputy editor of Moneywise and deputy head of Money and Capital markets at Financial Standard.

In the management team of the newspaper also are Kayode Adebiyi, a PR expert as executive director, and Kome Egbedi, a sales and marketing expert, as general manager.