Media outfit fetes customers at 20th anniversary
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tanus Communications Ltd, Yemi Ogunbiyi made this known to journalists in Lagos at an interactive session held to mark the conglomerate’s 20th anniversary. “Achieving the age of 20 years is a real milestone in the life of this company that was established on May 1, 1992. Our primary objective […]
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tanus Communications Ltd, Yemi Ogunbiyi made this known to journalists in Lagos at an interactive session held to mark the conglomerate’s 20th anniversary.
“Achieving the age of 20 years is a real milestone in the life of this company that was established on May 1, 1992. Our primary objective at inception was to fill the vacuum which was noticeable then, in this sub-sector of the Nigerian economy,” Ogunbiyi said.
According to Ogunbiyi, the media conglomerate, which is into public relations, media relations, advertising and book publishing, has been able to achieve a lot in the last 20 years. He noted that many blue chip companies have during that period, sought the company’s help in building and managing better corporate relationship with their customers, clients and stakeholders.
The Chief Executive Officer also used the period to announce the plan of the organisation’s publishing outfit to crash the prize of text book for Nigerian children so as to make education affordable for them.
“Tanus Books Limited, a subsidiary of Tanus communications will soon crash the cost of text books in Nigeria. It is our desire. The prices of text books are simply too high for the children of the poor. There is nothing that says we cannot produce good and qualitative text books at cheap prices. And that’s exactly what Tanus Books Limited will be doing in the next couple of months,” Ogunbiyi said.
According to the Managing Director, his decision to go into reducing text book prices sprung from the fact that education shouldn’t be made too elitist. He said it would not be wrong to assume that those who say the cost of books cannot be reduced are being driven by sheer greed.
Ogunbiyi also said since its publishing house dabbled into printing of texts, it has succeeded in having over 278 titles with the patronage coming from the Universal Basic Education and state governments who desire special kinds of instructional books for their students.
“At the moment, we produce, under the stringent watch of renowned educational experts, textbooks for several states of the federation as well as the federal government, and plans are at advanced stages to introduce a wide range of Nigerian and English classics specially rewritten for younger readers, as part of our support to the current national campaign to encourage reading,” Ogunbiyi said.