Tag: Nigeria Union of Journalists

Subsidy: NUJ threatens to withdraw services, join NLC protest

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has directed its members to withdraw their services and commence protests nationwide from Wednesday if the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNCPL) refuses to reverse the new price regime in the oil sector. According to an issued statement by the National Secretary of the NUJ, Shuaibu Usman Leman, the decision was reached after an online emergency Central Working Committee meeting of the Union on Saturday. The meeting, he said, was convened to discuss issues surrounding the decision by the Federal Government to remove fuel…

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NUJ urges Buhari to arrest worsening insecurity

Aminu Imam

Worried by renewed attacks on rural communities by armed bandits, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), Niger State Council chapter, has appealed to the Buhari-led administration not to abandon Niger State to armed bandits, whose sustained encroachments is causing more harm and untold hardship to the entire citizens of the State. The journalists in the State also demanded that President Buhari lives up to his statutory responsibility of protecting the lives and properties of the citizenry by flushing out armed bandits that have taken over some local government areas just…

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Niger: NUJ gives State govt. 7 days to rescue Islamiyya pupils

Aminu Imam

Demands immediate disbandment of Task Force on banned motorcycles The Nigerian Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Niger State council, has given the State government a one-week ultimatum to expedite action towards immediate release and safe return of 136 pupils of the Islamiyya school and other hostages still languishing in the den of their abductors. According to a 10-point communiqu issued at the end of the meeting, jointly signed by George Duniya and Uthman Siraja, Chairman,  the union also wants the state government to ban the task force saddled with the responsibility…

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