Onanuga, who gave the warning over the weekend in Abuja at a meeting with marketing staff of the agency, said that NAN has begun compilation of a list of culprit bloggers, which would be forwarded to Google for redress and sanctions.
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Mohammed, represented by the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, Bayo Onanuga, made the assertion at the biennial convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Lagos
Onanuga said this at the opening of a two-day training workshop for staff of the agency on Tuesday in Abuja
The books, written by a Managing Editor with the News Agency of Nigeria, Dele Bodunde, are works that strive to bring to the fore the ordeals of illegal migrants to Europe vial land routes and teach journalism in practical terms
The workshop, which was organised by Google and Code for Africa in collaboration with the News Agency of Nigeria, held at the NAN Media Centre in Iganmu on Thursday
Baru gave the commitment when the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, Bayo Onanuga, visited him at the NNPC Towers in Abuja on Thursday
Onanuga made the call when he received Senator Ali Wakili, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Poverty Alleviation, at NAN headquarters on Monday in Abuja
The Managing Director of NAN, Bayo Onanuga, announced this during a familiarisation visit to the Edo State office of the agency in Benin on Monday
Onanuga gave the advice in Abuja on Thursday when he received members of the Local Organising Committee of the 2016 National Family Planning Conference
He said with 501 journalists, NAN should effectively compete in terms of news output with international agencies like AFP and Reuters and serve its subscribers satisfactorily
Writing on his Facebook wall on Tuesday evening, Onanuga said facts he gathered through his daughter on a flight to London and his own experiences in Bauchi, Bauchi State and Jos, Plateau State showed that the situation in Nigeria is not as bad as being painted
He said the agency would rely on its expertise to provide credible and authoritative video news materials to local and foreign clients
Onanuga, who spoke to members of the “giant killing” squad shortly after they rounded up their training at the team’s Iganmu base, said he was certain they would defeat their first opponents, the Voice of Nigeria
“NAN was founded because our government and the entire Africa found out that reports were being written from the jaundiced views of those we called imperialists at that time and their news organs
Going down memory lane, the managing director recalled that NAN was established due to the need to tell Africa’s story by Africans, especially by Nigerians, rather than by the imperialists at the time
Mohammed said their tenure witnessed significant achievements by his ministry
The appointments were announced in Abuja on Wednesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
He, therefore, urged the National Assembly to create an enabling environment for the establishment of state or community police to address the security challenges
Onanuga made the call while declaring his intention to contest the Ogun East Senatorial District position in the 2015 general election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress