Editor’s Corner, YeyeNews.com, September 10, 2021
In a classic YeyeNews culture, the Publisher and Editor in Chief of Yeye.com, Johnbull Dokubo, has suddenly resigned less than one week before the online newspapers hit the newsstand. His issue was that the people he hired to do the job had failed in their responsibilities.
“I just could not do it anymore,” he told YeyeNews.com’s chief correspondent Okereke Udoakpuenyi. “They are so useless that I feel like firing them all, but then what?”
Dr. Dakubo, who schooled at Harvard University in the US, where he fell in love with Harvard Lampoon, the famed university’s satirical newspaper, said he wanted his satirical newspaper to compete with The Onion in the US, The Oxymoron in the UK, El Jueves in Spain, Tango in Italy and Cane Toad Times in Australia.
With the publisher’s resignation, nobody knows the fate of the newspapers, which had planned to launch on September 15. 2021. In an email to his newsroom staff and management team, the publisher lamented that he had invested his life savings in the project only to be disappointed by his team.
“All you Africans complain of not being given an opportunity,” he writes, “and here I am, providing you with once in a lifetime opportunity, but you all failed me. How do I recover the billions of Bolivar I have invested in this? If you all think I am someone like Nduka Obaigbena, publisher of ThisDay newspapers, think again. ”
In a chat with YeyeNews.com staff at the corporate headquarters in New York, one reporter told us not to pay any mind to the publisher’s rant.
“He is just an old man struggling to understand the modern world where bitcoin is currency and goat milk is the new crude oil,” the reporter said. “His mumu never do.”
