GbaramatuVoice- It is ten years coming: a departure from conventional press and a long road from tradition.
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:36 am
It profits to relive events that indicate a reel or fling of some sort was in progress,, to celebrate strides, to interrogate sequences of activity on how well we have journied, from where we begun.
It is in this flurry of memory, in a way that describes the milestones covered that we tell the Gbaramatu voice story. This story began to evolve over ten years ago, at the early days of the development of virtual media, when a great many conventional press inadvertently became part of a cultural confusion of twisted narratives, scissors and paste alarmist whisperings, lack of deep and professional review of news materials, unenthusiastic general staff and had metamorphosed into other ingeniously reconstructed forms for organisational relevance and visibility, Gbaramatu voice led by its principal visioner - Mr Jacob Abai, a young man with native sagacity, saw differently. He saw opportunity for a share in it.
We are here today celebrating ten years of GbaramatuVoice evolution as a print and electronic media, to recognise how such rare capitals as prudence, self control, and determination can create the present phenomenon of success we see today as Gbaramatu voice.
And you wonder why the use of the name Gbaramatu voice to describe a press of this nature and structure. Gbaramatu is the name of a town in the littoral of the Atlantic that sits astride major tributary and distributaries that make the place a known epicenter of trade from the earliest colonial times to present day.
As a press, Gbaramatu voice tells a wider Nigeria and global that is vividly portrayed from in the work sheet of an anthropologist where a part tells the whole, from a micro to a macro compilation of event until every detail in a story is conveyed. Essentially, Gbaramatu voice tells the Niger Delta story with so much energy and originality that offers a a balanced, fairly comprehensive view of the subject matter it interrogates. It tells its story story following the from indigenous whether it is politics, religion , culture and spirituality. Sometimes in these difficult preoccupation you will find GbaramatuVoice take a radical indigenous view based on how it perceives the people, their way of life and story, without the slightest attempt to corrupt the way it views its story.
I saw in its Headquarter office a steel framework embossed with the name "Niger Delta media center" which perhaps to me suggests the media objective of this news institution. Its fundamental decency and values in listening to all sides of a story has often been contested by people who know so little about how this media house operate. GbaramatuVoice believes there is nothing called deliberate targeting of journalists by security. It believes as a journalist, one should not have to be in the middle of a fight to get the best shot of a trending subject matter. Secondly, GbaramatuVoice believes that one can’t just follow whoever goes anywhere without question. It believes that a journalist should be able to differentiate between what is wrong and what is illegal. GbaramatuVoice do not let people shape its opinion on any issue. It lets the witness do it, someone in the field who saw what happened and is able to articulate the issues from clarity not hearsay or rumor of feel good interlocutor usual with many conventional press, who basically flaunt insidious anti-fact right-wing disinformation news story devoted to undermining fact-based reporting and selling ludicrous lies to credulous people.
I am particularly happy to associate with GbaramatuVoice especially after my appointment as its Chairman of its, Editorial Board. It is an assignment I devote to. But one thing I find around the organisation is the operational ethos of its Managing Director.
For me, the most striking aspect of his person is his unusual determination to be boring. In this ten years, Jacob Abai has delivered the most comprehensive security, reporting and management platform utilising an entire media Workspace and extended cloud environment. He is individualistic at adventures. Considerate and charitable, generally reserved but warm hearted to those close to him, he is strangely innocent and non combative in a highly combative society. His leadership is celebrated for its effectiveness and for the friendly climate which encouraged camaraderie. He has faced many mortal commercial combats from the conventional press, and even from peers but he very rarely let slip his views about how he feels with these betrayals.
"In a confessional age, when we post every idea, urge, impulse and image that pops into our heads, this Managing Director has kept his own counsel. When it comes to news details that hinges on the integrity of his organisation he rarely smiles, always maintaining dignity and the appearance of detachment. That is his interpretation of who a good journalist should be - one who listens to ever micro details and never takes sides.
Whether it was this attributes that distinguished him or his native energy that gave him the over mastering force among other easy going press, or whether it is sheer luck, the fact remains that whatever he touched he prospered. Like Jacob in Padan - Aram, he would no sooner humbly limit himself to the ring straked and spotted exceptions of the news industry, than the ring straked and spotted would multiply and prevail.
I consider that luck has very little to do with it and as argued by Novalis " Character is fate, " Jacobs Abai by disposition brings a deep experience in creating sustainable value and driving strategy into the news industry. Proud to see continued examples of growing partnerships.
Congratulations!
Tosan Blessing Harriman (FCODESRIA) Chairman, Editorial Board, Gbaramatu voice.
https://www.facebook.com/10006395371678 ... 7S9Ucbxw6v
It is in this flurry of memory, in a way that describes the milestones covered that we tell the Gbaramatu voice story. This story began to evolve over ten years ago, at the early days of the development of virtual media, when a great many conventional press inadvertently became part of a cultural confusion of twisted narratives, scissors and paste alarmist whisperings, lack of deep and professional review of news materials, unenthusiastic general staff and had metamorphosed into other ingeniously reconstructed forms for organisational relevance and visibility, Gbaramatu voice led by its principal visioner - Mr Jacob Abai, a young man with native sagacity, saw differently. He saw opportunity for a share in it.
We are here today celebrating ten years of GbaramatuVoice evolution as a print and electronic media, to recognise how such rare capitals as prudence, self control, and determination can create the present phenomenon of success we see today as Gbaramatu voice.
And you wonder why the use of the name Gbaramatu voice to describe a press of this nature and structure. Gbaramatu is the name of a town in the littoral of the Atlantic that sits astride major tributary and distributaries that make the place a known epicenter of trade from the earliest colonial times to present day.
As a press, Gbaramatu voice tells a wider Nigeria and global that is vividly portrayed from in the work sheet of an anthropologist where a part tells the whole, from a micro to a macro compilation of event until every detail in a story is conveyed. Essentially, Gbaramatu voice tells the Niger Delta story with so much energy and originality that offers a a balanced, fairly comprehensive view of the subject matter it interrogates. It tells its story story following the from indigenous whether it is politics, religion , culture and spirituality. Sometimes in these difficult preoccupation you will find GbaramatuVoice take a radical indigenous view based on how it perceives the people, their way of life and story, without the slightest attempt to corrupt the way it views its story.
I saw in its Headquarter office a steel framework embossed with the name "Niger Delta media center" which perhaps to me suggests the media objective of this news institution. Its fundamental decency and values in listening to all sides of a story has often been contested by people who know so little about how this media house operate. GbaramatuVoice believes there is nothing called deliberate targeting of journalists by security. It believes as a journalist, one should not have to be in the middle of a fight to get the best shot of a trending subject matter. Secondly, GbaramatuVoice believes that one can’t just follow whoever goes anywhere without question. It believes that a journalist should be able to differentiate between what is wrong and what is illegal. GbaramatuVoice do not let people shape its opinion on any issue. It lets the witness do it, someone in the field who saw what happened and is able to articulate the issues from clarity not hearsay or rumor of feel good interlocutor usual with many conventional press, who basically flaunt insidious anti-fact right-wing disinformation news story devoted to undermining fact-based reporting and selling ludicrous lies to credulous people.
I am particularly happy to associate with GbaramatuVoice especially after my appointment as its Chairman of its, Editorial Board. It is an assignment I devote to. But one thing I find around the organisation is the operational ethos of its Managing Director.
For me, the most striking aspect of his person is his unusual determination to be boring. In this ten years, Jacob Abai has delivered the most comprehensive security, reporting and management platform utilising an entire media Workspace and extended cloud environment. He is individualistic at adventures. Considerate and charitable, generally reserved but warm hearted to those close to him, he is strangely innocent and non combative in a highly combative society. His leadership is celebrated for its effectiveness and for the friendly climate which encouraged camaraderie. He has faced many mortal commercial combats from the conventional press, and even from peers but he very rarely let slip his views about how he feels with these betrayals.
"In a confessional age, when we post every idea, urge, impulse and image that pops into our heads, this Managing Director has kept his own counsel. When it comes to news details that hinges on the integrity of his organisation he rarely smiles, always maintaining dignity and the appearance of detachment. That is his interpretation of who a good journalist should be - one who listens to ever micro details and never takes sides.
Whether it was this attributes that distinguished him or his native energy that gave him the over mastering force among other easy going press, or whether it is sheer luck, the fact remains that whatever he touched he prospered. Like Jacob in Padan - Aram, he would no sooner humbly limit himself to the ring straked and spotted exceptions of the news industry, than the ring straked and spotted would multiply and prevail.
I consider that luck has very little to do with it and as argued by Novalis " Character is fate, " Jacobs Abai by disposition brings a deep experience in creating sustainable value and driving strategy into the news industry. Proud to see continued examples of growing partnerships.
Congratulations!
Tosan Blessing Harriman (FCODESRIA) Chairman, Editorial Board, Gbaramatu voice.
https://www.facebook.com/10006395371678 ... 7S9Ucbxw6v