By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has raised alarm over the rising cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and over 700 cases of sexual violations recorded between January and December 2022 in Borno State. The Chairperson, Communique Drafting Committee, Mrs. Fatima Zanna Mustapha stated...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The National President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), ,Chris Isiguzo, has urged media practitioners to observe their professional code of ethics in the discharge of their social responsibility during the 2023 general elections. He also called on the media owners in Nigeria to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged journalists to avoid rushing to publish news that are not properly verified and processed, under the breaking news syndrome. Mr Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education of INEC, gave the advice at a one-day training for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Borno State Council in collaboration with British Council have organized a two day workshop on “Promoting Safety of Journalists In Post-conflict Era”, to prepare journalists on the post conflict developmental reportage. Speaking at the occasion which was held...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, has condemned in totality recent skirmishes in some parts of the state, involving farmers and herders, which resulted in the lost of lives. Gov Sule made the condemnation when he interacted with both members of the state chapters...
The Ekiti branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) is lamenting the mass exodus of doctors from the state in search of greener pasture. The chairman, Dr Babatunde Rosiji, decried the rate on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti when he paid a courtesy visit to the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ secretariat....
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State Government is to upwardly review student Indigenes bursary award from five thousand naira to ten thousand naira. The state’s Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr. Afees Abolore- Alabi confirmed this while featuring on the 34th Edition Media Parliament organized by Kwara State Council...
By SUCCESS SOLOMON, Jos – The Director General, Plateau State Contributory Health Care Management Agency (PLASCHEMA) Dr. Fabong Jemchang Yildam has said Nigeria as a country is still very far from achieving the Universal Health Coverage UHC, due to low funding in the health sector, poverty, and lack of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has congratulated newly elected executives of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Borno State. The executives were elected on Saturday at the council’s triennial delegates conference, which took place at the Musa Usman Secretariat in Maiduguri. Zulum’s congratulatory...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) has elected new executive council members that run the affairs of the council in the next three years under the observation of the National President of the NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo during the union 2022...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar Against the backdrop of medical tourism, The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Professor Ikpeme Ikpeme has said that the desire of his administration is to provide first class infrastructural upgrade in the teaching hospital in line with the...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Former Special Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on National Assembly Matters Senator Florence Ita Giwa on Sunday insisted that it’s the turn of Cross River South Senatorial District to produce the next governor in 2023. Senator Ita Giwa stated this on Sunday while...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Cross River State Command has said it would soon commence the clampdown of unregistered motorcycles, and tricycles in Cross River State. The State Sector Commander, Mr. Abdulahi Hassan disclosed this on Monday at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ) has pledged to sustain continuous partnership with the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in combating crime in the society through objective reportage of police activities as well as public sensitisation on security measures. The NUJ Chairman of Cross River...
The Police Command in Zamfara on Saturday night released the leadership Newspapers reporter, Umar Maradun, on bail. The Police released Maradun at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. Maradun was arrested in the early hours of Saturday from his country home, Maradun, Maradun Local Government Area and detained at the...
Mallam Garba Attahiru-Madami, Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara, on Thursday, called on the youth to safeguard their votes in 2023. Attahiru-Madami made the call at a symposium tagged: ”Youths and 2023 General Elections: Your Concern, My Concern”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A correspondent with The Nation Newspaper, Comrade Gill Nsa on Saturday emerged as the Council Chairman of The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Cross River State. Comrade Nsa, who scored 76 votes defeated his closet rival, Comrade Okar Ibor of Nigerian Chronicle, who...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bauchi State Council, has condemned the arrest and detention of the Publisher of WikkiTimes, Haruna Mohammed and his reporter Kamal Idris, by the Nigeria Police Force in the state. In a statement jointly signed by the State Chairman and...
Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has urged the Nigerian electorate to vote the right people into positions of authority, to salvage the country from its current challenges. Amaechi, who was a Special Guest of Honour at the 2022 World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Uyo on Tuesday, urged...