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| The Cover Edition for Vol 2 No2, August 12, 2019 |
The Editorial Note Behind the Scene
THE story you are about to read is yet another verity of our cultural philosophy of perspective journalism. Civics Journal came into the media industry to fill the gap in news reporting – the is deprivation of the public of news in the perspective of established facts, which is created by the ordinary convention of reportage as driven only on the four wheels of who said what at where and when was it said?
THE story you are about to read is yet another verity of our cultural philosophy of perspective journalism. Civics Journal came into the media industry to fill the gap in news reporting – the is deprivation of the public of news in the perspective of established facts, which is created by the ordinary convention of reportage as driven only on the four wheels of who said what at where and when was it said?
Civics Journal is positioned to
operate further on this convention with application of the auxiliary wheels of
journalism that naturally seek devil's in the detail of an event; the
fundamental questions that probes deeper into the issues of the reportage as to
of why was the issue raised in the first place and how it
started.
After subjecting our many pending
cover stories that foot this bill of investigative journalism to a debate of
priority of preeminence to prove our individual mettle at the Editorial Board,
this story of “Guerrilla Land War in Isheri Olofin” came second to the story of
a Southsouth governor who literally acquired the state powers by turning every
election in his State to a war of cultists and gangsters he would always
conscript as his ragtag soldiers against the state authority of the military
and other security agents.
But when in deeper comparism of
the two stories and they were found to share similar theme of 'Artifice of a
Warlord', the story of the land war in Isheri Olofin as prosecuted by one
Alhaji Shamsideen Adebimpe eventually made priority parity with the initially
intended story of the Don-of-gangsters governor.
But yet came the question; which
should be published now for resonance with current reality of issues at stake?
Two factors threw up the story of Isheri Olofin for preference. The first was
our share of the philosophy that all politics is local. The second but the more
important of the two was a recent questionable “Public Hearing” the Lagos State
Task Force on Land Grabbers was purported to have conducted as responsive
attention to the last of serial petitions by which the Alhaji Adebimpe is
prosecuting his war against Isheri Olofin and its monarch.
The facts of the Guerrilla Land
War in Isheri Olofin from depth of its causative origin is what you are about
to read in this edition of Civics Journal. Like our promise to the public, we
may not break the news, but we definitely assure all the facts behind the news.
Enjoy
your reading.
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