NUJ

Odusile disclosed this Saturday in Jos, Plateau State, while addressing delegates and members of the Plateau State Council on his ambition to run for a second term as President of the union.

Olalere, who was in Makurdi on Thursday, on a consultation visit to the Benue chapter of the union, said he would also ensure regular payments of salaries to media workers and prosecute defaulting employers.

Isiguzo said that he received the death of Nanle, the Director of Press and Public Affairs with deep sense of pain and sorrowful heart.

The Chairman of the council, Emma Ifesinachi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Awka.

Addressing members of the Kaduna State Council in his nationwide electioneering, Atunbi said he had the vision of taking the NUJ to the “next level” and making members to feel the impact of their union through improved service delivery.

Odusile spoke while inaugurating the seven-man committee, explaining that the interest of NUJ is to ensure justice for all and that the NUJ will not shield anybody who is found to have erred.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ukuma died in the early hours of Saturday at the Benue University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi, after a brief illness.

The Chairman of the council, Rex Arum, led a protest march at the premises of the NUJ Press Centre along Rangers Avenue in Enugu.

Momoh-Jimoh who made the appeal at the burial ceremony of the deceased journalist at Odu-Ofomu in Dekina Local Government of the state said that the payment would ameliorate the hardships experienced by the immediate family.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abiri, who was received at the Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Centre, expressed his optimism of getting justice.

Shuaibu Leman, the NUJ National Secretary, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, directed all the state and FCT Councils of the union to mobilise the members for the protest.

The Oyo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists on Sunday condemned the demolition of Yinka Ayefele’s Music House which houses his Fresh FM 105.9 radio station.

Odusile made this known in Lokoja on Thursday while speaking at the Kogi State NUJ 2018 Press Week, with the theme: “The Media and News Reporting in an Election Year.”

An elated the Lagos SWAN Chairman, Debo Osundun, in his congratulatory message urged the elected members to be a good ambassador of the association.

Making the call in Bauchi on Thursday at the opening ceremony of a meeting of the NUJ Central Working Committee, he observed that Bauchi was the only state in the North-East zone that had not started implementing it.

Liman made the disclosure on Tuesday while briefing a team of journalists on National Democracy Dividend Media Tour organized by the National Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.

Aregbesola, who was represented by his Senior Special Adviser on Media, Yomi Obaditan, the advice became necessary because there had been a lot of unsavoury developments in the media.

The Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dan Manjang, disclosed this on Wednesday in Jos when the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Plateau Council, paid him a courtesy visit.

The State Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi, made the assertion on Wednesday at an interaction with the members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Umuahia.

The NUJ made the call against the backdrop of the information in the public domain that the Senate was proposing death sentence for the purveyor of hate speech that leads to the death of another.