EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Chidera Okafor
Ten years on city desks in Enugu and Lagos. Reads every letter personally.
ENUGU · ABOUT THE GAZETTE · EST. 2023
Enugu deserves a paper that shows up every single week.
MeetEnugu is a weekly city gazette for the Coal City — news, food, culture, events and people, reported on foot and delivered to your inbox every Friday morning. We started because the national papers fly over Enugu and the rumour mill fills the gap. A city of a million people deserves better than rumour.
148 issues in, the promise is the same as issue No. 1: real reporting, real neighbourhoods, no wire copy, no clickbait — and free for every reader, forever.
ENUGU · THE RULES WE PRINT UNDER
Five principles, pinned above every desk
I
File from the street, not the wire
Every story is reported in person, in Enugu. If we haven't stood in the market, we don't write about the market.
II
Name the neighbourhood
Specifics are respect. We say Awkunanaw, Trans-Ekulu, Independence Layout — never "a part of the city".
III
Correct in public, quickly
Errors are fixed within one edition and flagged at the top of the story. Trust is the whole business.
IV
Free stays free
The Friday Dispatch will always cost nothing. A city gazette belongs to the city.
V
Praise loudly, criticise fairly
We love this city and we hold it to account — both, in the same issue, without apology.
ENUGU · THE MASTHEAD
The small desk behind the dispatch
FOOD & MARKETS EDITOR
Ngozi Eze
Grew up above a buka in New Haven. Knows every stall at Ogbete by first name.
CULTURE & EVENTS WRITER
Somto Udeh
Covers the gigs, galleries and street corners where the city actually happens.
Plus a rotating cast of photographers, tipsters and letter-writers across every layout in the city. Write to the desk →
ISSUE NO. 148 — FRIDAY DISPATCH
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