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Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported
as missing to the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC) during a decade
of conflict in northeast Nigeria, the highest number
of missing persons registered with the ICRC in any
country.
Nearly 60 percent were minors at the time they
went missing, meaning thousands of parents don’t
know where their children are and if they are alive
or dead.
“Every parent’s worst nightmare is not
knowing where their child is. This is the tragic
reality for thousands of Nigerian parents, leaving
them with the anguish of a constant search. People
have the right to know the fate of their loved ones,
and more needs to be done to prevent families
from being separated in the first place,” said ICRC
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Antonio Guterres
African Development Bank
President - Akinwumi Adesina
has unveiled ambitious plans to
scrap coal power stations across the
continent and switch to renewable energy
at the United Nations Climate talks.
Addressing a gathering of leaders and
officials from almost 200 countries in
New York, Adesina outlined efforts to
shutter coal-fired power plants and build
the “largest solar zone in the world” in the
arid Sahel belt.
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President Peter Maurer at the end of his
five-day visit to the country.
During his time in Nigeria, Maurer met
with Nigerian President Buhari and highlevel
government, civil society and
business leaders and spoke with families
who have been affected by conflict in
Maiduguri and Monguno, many of whom
have missing relatives.
Families in northeast Nigeria are often
separated while fleeing attacks. Others have
had loved ones abducted or detained and do
not know their whereabouts. The ICRC
works with the Nigeria Red Cross and other
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in the
region to trace missing people by showing
photographs, calling out names, and going
door-to-door in camps and communities.
So far, 367 cases have been solved since
ICRC received its first cases in 2013,
underscoring the immense challenges that
come with finding missing people and
reconnecting them with their families in
Nigeria. Large swathes of the northeast of
the country remain completely inaccessible
to humanitarian organisations. People have
also been displaced by fighting many times,
making them harder to find.
“What troubles me is that I haven’t
heard whether he is dead or alive. I just
don’t know. Whenever I cook food for his
siblings, I think about him,” Falmata
Amodu, the mother of a boy who went
missing in 2013 at age 10 while fleeing an
attack, told us. “For the three years that we
stayed in Maiduguri, my husband was very
distressed and would repeatedly have
nightmares. He would call the name of our
abducted son, ‘Alkali, Alkali, Alkali’ all the
time.”
Two million people are estimated to be
displaced from their homes in northeast
Nigeria. In Monguno, internally displaced
Nigerians outnumber residents nearly two
to one. Health care is also a major concern,
as health workers and medical facilities
continue to come under fire. Nearly a year
ago, two ICRC health workers, Hawa
Mohammed Liman and Saifura Hussaini
Ahmed Khorsa, were deliberately killed
after they were abducted from a clinic in
Rann in Borno State. These attacks on
health care are not only a violation of
international humanitarian law, but also an
assault on people’s basic right to receive
health care.
“Families are the greatest casualty of 10
years of war in northeast Nigeria. They
have been torn apart. Children have been
killed and maimed in bomb blasts. Their
health facilities have been ruthlessly
attacked and their homes and belongings
destroyed. Families belong together and
above all, civilians must be spared in war”
Maurer said.
Akinwumi Adesina: No room for coal
in Africa’s renewable future
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“Coal is the past, and renewable energy is
the future. For us at the African Development
Bank, we’re getting out of coal,” Adesina told
delegates to the Climate Action Summit in
Manhattan.
The Bank’s $500 million green base-load
scheme will be rolled out in 2020 and is set to
yield $5 billion of investment that will help
African countries transition from coal and fossil
fuel to renewable energy, said Adesina.
Adesina also talked about plans for $20
billion of investments in solar and clean energy
that would provide the region’s 250 million
people with 10,000 MW of electricity.
“There’s a reason God gave Africa
sunlight,” said Adesina.
Presidents, princes and government
ministers from around the world attended the
UN’s climate summit, as they faced mounting
pressure to reduce heat-trapping gas emissions
and slow the global rise in temperatures.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
also took a swipe at the “dying fossil fuel
industry” and said it was still not too late to keep
the global rise in temperatures below the
benchmark figure of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“But it will require fundamental
transformations in all aspects of society - how
we grow food, use land, fuel our transport and
power our economies,” said Guterres.
“We need to link climate change to a new
model of development - fair globalisation - with
less suffering, more justice, and harmony
between people and the planet.”
The UN says mankind must reduce
greenhouse gas emissions to limit global
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warming to about 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial
temperatures to stave off the worstcase
predictions of scientists.
The meeting was part of the run-up to the
international climate talks in 2020, which is the
next deadline for countries to make significant
emissions reduction pledges under the 2015
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Artworks created by school
children from across
Nigeria’s Lagos and Ogun
States are currently on display in
London.
Tagged - “My Story of Water”, the
display showcases 500 jerry cans on
to which the children have painted
their story of water. It is displayed as
a public outdoor exhibition at Oxo
Tower Wharf arcade from 1st – 30th
September alongside a photo
exhibition of the project at London’s
City Hall, open to the public from 3rd
– 16th September.
“My Story of Water” is an arts
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together children, young people and
teachers from Nigeria with partners
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38 teachers and 1600 children
from Lagos and Ogun States took part
in the project which culminated in a
presentation at SIWI World Water
Week in Stockholm
The on-going exhibitions - part of
Totally Thames Festival, is a project
of Five Cowries Arts Education
Initiative delivered in partnership
with Lagos State Waterways
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Authority (LASWA).
A launch was held at City Hall and
a Private Evening event at Oxo Tower
Wharf, to celebrate the vibrant
Diaspora ties between London and
Lagos. The events offered
“opportunities to strengthen
relationships between the two cities
and develop cultural exchange
programmes that address
environmental and climate change
issues, with a particular focus on the
issues of water transportation.“
The Lagos State Government - an
Associate Partner of the event was
represented at the events by: Mr
Jermaine Sanwo-Olu - Senior Special
Assistant to the Governor on
Diaspora and Foreign Relations; Mr
Oluwadamilola Emmanuel - MD of
LASWA; and Dr Taiwo Olufemi
Salaam - Permanent Secretary,
Work of Lagos School children on display at London's City Hall (Photo Credit - Jermaine Sanwoolu)
Ministry of Local Government and
Community Affairs.
Five Cowries was co-founded in
2018 by Muralist, Artist, Educator
and children’s book Author - Polly
Alakija; and Yemisi Mokuolu - a
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The 1st European MoneyGram
Awards to honour foreign
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economies and reinforcing integration in
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
the UK, will take place in Brussels on
Thursday 7 November 2019 at the
Claridge.
The European MoneyGram Awards is a
unique recognition project that represents
the commitment to migrant communities
living and working across Europe. Prizes
will be distributed in the following
categories:
- Innovation
- Profit Growth
- Social Responsibility
The prize for the European Foreign
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awarded to the entrepreneur who will be
distinguished in all three categories. All
companies will be nominated through an
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After an online voting session of four
weeks, an international jury will select a
shortlist of nine entrepreneurs, three for
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in Brussels on Thursday 7 November 2019.
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Ayan De First showcases culture on Oct 19
Cultural icon and celebrity talking
drummer - Ayan De First is to host the
African Cultural Gala Night (ACGN)
on October 19 at the Palm Hotel in London.
Put together to showcase African culture
before a global audience, ACGN will be
promoting the significance of the diverse and
opulent African heritage through cultural dance
and music. It will demonstrate the importance
of dance and music as a medium for social
engagement and communication to address key
contemporary issues.
Ayan De First and his students will also be
performing on the talking drums, while
Nigerian-British children will also deliver
renditions in the Igbo, Edo and Yoruba
languages. Akwa Ibom dancers will also be
performing for an audience that will include His
Excellency Ambassador George Oguntade, the
Nigeria High commissioner to the UK.
Ayan de First said: “The purpose of it is to
showcase our rich cultural heritage and to also
remind Africans and especially Nigerians, of
where they come from.
“Our colonial masters have taken the whole
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all that we have, but could not take our culture
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Nigeria, Xenophobia and
Ramaphosa’s apology
We are told that South Africa’s
President Cyril Ramaphosa
apologised on Saturday for the
xenophobic attacks against foreigners living
in South Africa, particularly persons involved
in business who are seen by the ordinary
South African as enemies. He reportedly did
this in Harare, Zimbabwe, at the funeral
ceremony of former President Robert Mugabe
of Zimbabwe. Most appropriately, the South
African President was booed. He was offering
too little too late, and other Africans have
every reason to think that South Africans
having behaved badly deserve to be booed
and even shut out of the African Union, or
reported to the International Criminal Court
(ICC), as has been recommended in certain
quarters. More than a week after the attack on
foreigners on the streets of Johannesburg and
elsewhere, it has now occurred to the South
African President to send envoys to Nigeria
and six other African countries. Jeff Radebe,
South Africa’s Minister of Energy has visited
Abuja to apologise to the government and
people of Nigeria.
It may be in keeping with diplomatic
traditions to do this, but Africans in unison
must make it clear that the hate-driven attack
on immigrants in South Africa is totally
unacceptable. What we know is that there is a
tacit acceptance and promotion of a culture of
hate by the South African authorities. That is
precisely why it took so long for the South
African President to take the matter seriously.
Before now, South African Minister of
Foreign Affairs - Grace Naledi Pandor told
the world that Nigerians in South Africa are
criminals, drug dealers and human traffickers.
Deputy Police Minister - Bongani Mkongi
said no other country would tolerate 80% of
its businesses being dominated by foreigners
as is the case in South Africa. South African
Defence Minister - Nosiviwe Mapisa-
Nqakula boasted, irresponsibly, that there is
nothing South Africa can do about the
xenophobic attacks because South Africa is
an angry nation.
These were the disturbing messages that
came out of South Africa as immigrants were
attacked, their shops were pillaged and
plundered and Africans from other parts of the
continent fled in all directions. Rwanda,
Nigeria, Zambia, Madagascar, Democratic
Republic of Congo – government and
nationals - expressed their anger in various
forms but South Africa was studiously in
denial. The only voices of reason in the midst
of that crisis, as far as I could see, were Julius
Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters
who condemned the deplorable conduct of
South Africans; Mangozuthu Buthelezi, the
Zulu Chief who gave a useful speech in which
he reminded his compatriots of the sacrifice
made by other Africans to free the black
South African from apartheid. Then, of
course, there is the testimony by many South
African women, on social media – bold
women who rose in defence of Nigerian men,
who have been accused in this xenophobic
crisis that they are taking over South African
businesses and also marrying South African
women to the discomfiture of the average
South African male.
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa have
been so regular and so persistent since 1994,
after apartheid. Objection to white rule and
domination has been replaced by resistance to
the presence of immigrants on South African
soil, and this has played out as black on black
violence, the hegemony of hate and
intolerance, a kind of reverse, umbilical
apartheid with the immigrant as victim. The
matter is serious. It is disturbing. It is
unacceptable. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s
apology does not solve the problem. His
decision to send envoys across Africa is
belated. Is he sincere? I don’t think so. Has he
shown required leadership and sincerity of
purpose. No. The South African authorities
have a responsibility to protect foreigners on
their soil. They have failed woefully.
Xenophobia in South Africa
Accusations of xenophobia may be difficult
to accept, and indeed embarrassing, and hence
all that talk about criminality, coming from
South African officials, but the truth is that
South Africa must see this crisis as an
opportunity for reflection, review and
penitence, and to ensure that these
xenophobic attacks do not happen again.
President Ramaphosa’s apology can only
make sense if he goes further to take concrete
steps to put an end to the growing culture of
hate in South Africa. He must match his
apology with action. What programme(s)
does he intend to put in place to heal a South
African nation whose people appear so
alienated, confused and disturbed? Are there
any concrete ideas on the table to address an
issue that goes straight to the heart of South
Africa’s relevance, and may be Ramaphosa’s
eventual legacy? I doubt if there are any. It
seems to me that the big problem is not
necessarily the outsider but the failure of the
post-apartheid African National Congress
(ANC) leadership in South Africa and the
emergent black middle class. The apartheid
regime was constructed to dehumanise, depersonalise,
and violate the black South
African. The end of apartheid in 1994 has not
made much difference. The emergence in
BY REUBEN ABATI
power of a black-dominated African National
Congress, the ruling party, after apartheid
may have given the impression of a power
shift, but in real terms, the black South
African has not yet seen the dividends of a
post-apartheid South Africa. In the last
general elections, the African National
Congress (ANC) recorded its worst
performance since 1994. The party is divided.
It is led by corrupt people who cannot agree
on ethical standards either within the party or
outside of it. Unemployment rate is over 28%.
The people who have benefitted from the end
of apartheid represent a very small percentage
of the black population. Many black and
colored South Africans live under conditions
worse than what they faced under apartheid.
Nelson Mandela, the first post-apartheid
President of South Africa was a universal icon
who gave everyone hope. He talked about a
rainbow nation and preached unity and
reconciliation. Years after Mandela’s death,
the average South African can no longer see
the rainbow clearly. Most of the young people
wielding pangas and sticks and burning down
shops belonging to foreigners do not have a
sense of history. Many of them were born
after the Mandela era. Their hate is borne out
of sheer ignorance. Those who know the
history have refused to teach them. They just
do not know that once upon a time in that
same South Africa, a black man was the
equivalent of nothing.
The first task before Cyril Ramaphosa is
to build a truly rainbow nation on a
foundation of unity, reason, justice and
service delivery. He needs to do this because
the inheritors of Mandela’s legacy are clearly
running South Africa aground and giving a
bad name to the black man in Africa. This is
the original source of the bad conduct of those
South Africans who are killing their fellow
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Africans. They are busy blaming outsiders for
the problems that have been created by their
own leaders who don’t even have the decency
to say the right things and who utter nonsense
habitually. They have more or less
disappointed the Madiba, with perhaps the
only exception of Thabo Mbeki, whose Pan-
Africanism contrasts sharply with the
insularity and clownishness that we have
witnessed from Jacob Zuma to Ramaphosa.
South African blacks are complaining that
foreigners are taking their jobs and women
because post-apartheid, no sustainable,
productive effort has been made to enlarge the
black middle class in South Africa. Social
mobility remains a problem. Educational
standards for blacks have not improved
significantly. The few who have crossed the
social mobility line are selfish. They have
imposed on their own kinsmen such terror and
wickedness worse than that of the white
architects of apartheid. Those young South
Africans venting their anger on Africans and
other immigrants in their country are
nonetheless picking on the wrong target.
Their problem is not the man from
Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, India, Italy,
Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Angola, or
Democratic Republic of Congo, let them look
for their enemies in the South African
parliament, the Presidency and government
departments across the country. Those are the
real enemies of South Africa not the
Mozambican who runs a corner shop in the
suburb of Johannesburg; not the Nigerian who
believes that a South African woman is the
sweetest thing since the apple in the Garden
of Eden.
Apologies alone will not be enough. The
South African government must embark on a
national healing process. The Black South
African is not done yet with the anger or the
pains of apartheid, and the slowness of postapartheid
recovery. When he finishes chasing
the outsider away, he will turn his gaze and
anger on his own compatriots, and the
Mandela legacy would have been ruined.
President Ramaphosa must take South Africa
through a new process of healing and
reconciliation, South Africa needs an angermanagement
programme for its citizens on a
very large scale. It is bad enough for an
individual to slip into depression; it is worse
for an entire country to be depressed. South
Africa is in the grips of an obvious clinical
depression. History may well help. The young
South African who is attacking foreigners
needs to be taught the history of his own
country and present reality. South Africa is a
free country today because liberals and
progressives across the world stood up to
condemn the evil of apartheid: a system that
treated the black South African as a nonperson
on his own soil. The black man in
South Africa today can go to a mall, sit in the
same bus with a white person, inter-marry
freely, in fact feel like a human being because
other Africans supported the liberation heroes
of South Africa. Here in Nigeria, civil
servants had to surrender part of their salaries
to support the anti-apartheid struggle. Many
musicians: Fela, Bongos Ikwue, Sonny
Okosun, Majek Fashek, Onyeka Onwenu, the
Mandators, Ayinla Kollington, Sunny Ade
waxed records to condemn the
dehumanization of the black man in South
Africa. Ghanaians, Zimbabweans, Ugandans
decried the maltreatment of our brothers and
sisters in South Africa. Today, the same South
Africans whose parents and grandparents
were saved from the clutches of white
oppression are proving to be a generation of
ingrates. History saves a nation. South Africa
must teach its young population the history of
their country.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should not
just send envoys to other African countries.
He should personally embark on a diplomatic
shuttle across Africa. He should also have a
national address devoted to the challenge of
xenophobia. He must resist the push by the
hawks within his own administration who
nurse xenophobic ideas and who in particular,
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convert their sentiments to State policy. His
Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Defence
Minister, and Deputy Minister of Police
should be fired. They may be good people
ordinarily, but they have proven to be very
bad diplomats and spokespersons.
Ramaphosa must make it clear that these
persons do not speak on this subject for either
the government or the people of South Africa.
On Monday, September 16, President
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his brother, President Muhammadu Buhari for
the attack on Nigerians in South Africa.
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Radebe reportedly told President Buhari that
50 suspects have so far been apprehended and
that the South African government will not
tolerate xenophobia. Radebe is a very
experienced politician. I have no doubts that
he would manage to convince President
Buhari. But as he returns to South Africa,
after what is clearly a reciprocal exchange of
special envoys, President Buhari must tell him
that the matter between Nigerians and South
Africans is now beyond the Presidential Villas
in Abuja and Pretoria. This is one
mismanaged case in which international
relations has gone from official corridors to
the streets. Mr. Radebe should also tell
President Ramaphosa not to listen to those
advisers who believe that Nigeria is overreacting.
The only solution is that no
Nigerian or Nigerian business should ever be
harassed or attacked again in South Africa. It
is within South Africa’s rights to determine
and enforce its immigration laws but if any
foreigner manages to set up home or shop in
South Africa, then the country itself has an
international responsibility to protect all
persons within its territory. President
Ramaphosa and his team must take that duty
seriously.
I should end this commentary by
commending the outflow, in fact the
overflow, of patriotism by Nigerians over the
attack on Nigerians in South Africa. This is
not the first time the attacks would happen.
There were cases of xenophobia in South
Africa in 1994, 2008, 2015, and now 2019,
but this time Nigerians have set aside political
differences, and ethnic and class sentiments
and insisted that an attack on one Nigerian is
an attack on all Nigerians. If the Nigerian
government had declared war and called out
volunteers, there would have been a ready
army of citizens ready to fight the South
Africans. Nigerians don’t always praise their
governments. But there seems to be a
consensus of opinion that President
Muhammadu, Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Nigeria’s Diaspora Commission
got it right this time by making it clear that
every Nigerian life matters, including the
lives of those Naledi Pandor and her likes,
regard as criminals. The hero in all of this
melodrama, however, is Allen Onyema, the
CEO of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, which
provided aircraft to evacuate Nigerians, free
of charge from South Africa. He deserves a
Presidential handshake and a national honour.
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Earn money as a Trumpet Ambassador
campaign.
Sale of Banner Adverts, ‘Highlights’ and
Mail-shots our in Email Newsletters.
With rates ranging from £100 to £500 per
insertion, we pay Ambassadors a 15%
Commission.
Sale of Advertising on our Social Media
channels.
With rates ranging between £100 to £200
per channel per post, we pay a 15%
Commission.
Sale of Sponsorship, Advertising,
Exhibition spaces and Tickets for GAB
Awards and Trumpet Connect.
With most products and services ranging
between £100 and £20,000, we pay a 15%
Commission.
Engagement Status
Our freelance Ambassadors run their own
business, work from their own home or
office, and choose the amount of time
they devote to the programme. They work
towards the amount they want to earn.
They choose their legal status in terms of
whether they operate as a Self-Employed
individual or a Limited Company or any
other appropriate status depending on the
country they operate, but we suggest you
take professional advice on this.
Ambassadors are fully responsible for
ensuring their tax affairs and other related
issues fulfil the legal requirements of their
country of operation.
Incentives
From time to time, to incentivise our
Ambassadors, we may run special
promotions, or reward achievements,
milestones and introduction of other
Ambassadors to the programme through
cash or advert credits.
About Us
Trumpet Media Group is an
international media organisation with
various media products, services and
events targeting Africa, Africans and Friends
of Africa in the Diaspora and on the
Continent.
Its first media venture - Trumpet Newspaper
started 23 years ago - in 1995, closely
followed by the founding of the prestigious
Gathering of Africa’s Best (GAB) Awards in
1999. There are a number of other niche
products, services and events - with plans to
grow our portfolio over the coming months
and years.
Sales Ambassadors
Our planned future growth has given rise to
the need to take on talented and ambitious
Sales Ambassadors who share our vision of:
promoting the positive image of Africa and
Africans, and are able to sell some (or all) of
our growing number of products and services
on a freelance basis.
Products and Services
We are introducing our portfolio of products,
services, and events below on to the Trumpet
Ambassadors Programme (TAP) in phases.
Print Newspapers: The Trumpet Newspaper
and Trumpet Ghana Newspaper.
Website: www.TrumpetMediaGroup.com
Email Newsletters: Trumpet Newsbreaker,
Trumpet Kenya, Trumpet Nigeria, Trumpet
Sierra Leone, Trumpet Gambia, Trumpet
Ghana
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ and WhatsApp.
Events: GAB Awards and Trumpet Connect.
The Opportunities
Opportunities to earn revenue through
Commissions are currently available by
way of:
Sale of Subscriptions to any (or both) of
our Print Newspapers.
With Annual Subscriptions starting from
£60, we pay a 10% Commission.
Distribution and Sales of bulk copies our
Newspapers.
We pay a 35% Commission - split between
the Ambassador and the Sales Outlet.
(Outlets will usually take between 15%
and 25% depending on its type and your
negotiating skills.)
Ambassadors may choose to sell directly
to their clientele or at events and keep the
entire 35% Commission.
Sale of Advertising Spaces in our Print
Newspapers.
With most Advert Spaces ranging from
£80 to £4500 per edition, we pay a 15%
Commission. You receive a Commission
on all editions in the campaign in line
with the Client’s payment - for example, if
an advertiser books and pays for six
editions, you get a Commission on all six
editions.
Sale of Banner Adverts on Website
With Banner Adverts ranging between
£50 and £200 per week, we pay a 15%
Commission for the length of the
Payments
Commission Payments to Ambassadors
are made by the 15th day of the month
following payment of Clients - For
example, Commission on Clients’
payments in January will be paid by 15th
February.
Distribution and Sales of bulk copies of
Newspapers (4.3) are excluded from the
payment arrangement above (7.1).
An Ambassador buys and pays for bulk
copies in advance at a discounted rate
with the TAP Commission deducted upfront.
For example, if an Ambassador
orders bulk copies worth £100 in advance,
the Ambassador only pays us £65
(deducting the 35% Commission upfront).
We operate a No-Returns policy on
Newspaper Sales.
Joining the Programme
It currently costs £100 per annum to join
the Trumpet Ambassadors Programme
(TAP).
Introductory Offer - Join the programme
by 31 August 2018 and accumulate sales
of at least £1000 across any or all of our
products by 30 September 2018; and we
will reward you with 100 TAP Points
worth £100 - which you can spend on any
of our opportunities (4.2) - (4.8).
To join the programme, please request the
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We are recruiting:
Independent Sales Consultants
Trumpet Media Group - an
international media
organisation targeting Africa,
Africans and Friends of Africa
in the Diaspora and on the
Continent was founded 24
years ago - in 1995.
Our growth has given rise to the need to engage the services
of self-employed Independent Sales Consultants and
organisations to sell some (or all) of our growing number of
products and services on a Commission-only basis.
The Opportunities
Opportunities to earn revenue through Commissions are
currently available by way of:
· Sale of Subscriptions to our Print Newspapers.
· Distribution and Sales of bulk copies our Newspapers.
· Sale of Advertising Spaces in our Print Newspapers.
· Sale of Banner Adverts on Website.
· Sale of Banner Adverts, ‘Highlights’ and Mail-shots in Email
Newsletters.
· Sale of Advertising posts on our Social Media channels.
· Sale of Sponsorship, Advertising, Exhibition spaces and
Tickets for GAB Awards and other events.
To apply, please email: info@the-trumpet.com

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