Tag: NUJ

Governor Inuwa Congratulates Comrade Alhassan Yahaya On Emergence As NUJ National Deputy President

Aminu Imam

Umar Kaltungo Gombe state Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has received with excitement, the news of the election of Comrade Alhassan Yahya Abdullahi as the Deputy President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ. Comrade Alhassan, who was the Vice President ( Zone E) of the Union, was elected alongside other national officers, including the President, Mr. Christopher Isiguzo who was re-electe for second term during the Seventh Triennial Delegates Conference of the NUJ held on Thursday in Abia State. In a congratulatory message, Governor Yahaya described Comrade Alhassan as a…

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‘No cause for alarm’- Kaduna NUJ speaks on demolition notice

Aminu Imam

Kaduna State Council of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has debunked rumours of Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i issuing it a quit notice and planning to demolish its Secretariat noting that the story is mischievous and misleading. According to an issued press statement by theChairman NUJ Kaduna State Council, Adamu Yusuf and Secretary, John Femi Adi, Before todays notice, the Council was served the first letter dated 2nd August, 2021 and its exco responded immediately with a physical visit and subsequent meetings with KASUPDA and Kaduna State Market Development Company, (KSMDC), the…

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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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Nigerian Army appeals to Boko Haram, ISWAP terrorists for reconciliation

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army has begged Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists to seek forgiveness and reconciliation, saying soldiers and the public are not happy that people are dying. The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Brig.-Gen. A.A. Eyitayo, made the call at a feast organised for journalists by the Army at the weekend, in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Eyitayo, who is also the Commander of Sector 1, ‘OperationHadin Kai‘, noted that the recent military onslaught against the insurgents dealt a decisive blow on the terrorists, leaving their remnants…

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Party without internal democracy cant form good govt. SAN

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A legal luminary, Yusuf Ali, has said that any political party whose internal democratic mechanism is not credible cannot form a transparent government. Ali made this observation on Wednesday in Ilorin while delivering a keynote address at the event to end the activities marking the Press Week of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Kwara. Ali, who spoke on the theme The Effectiveness of Party Supremacy in Strengthening Democratic Principles and Promoting National Development, observed that party supremacy had been lost in the Nigerian political…

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Akwa Ibom journalists boycott Fani-Kayodes press conference

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Akwa Ibom state chapter has directed its members to shun a press conference planned for former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode landed in Akwa Ibom State on Thursday and was received by Governor Udom Emmanuel in continuation of his controversial tour of projects in PDP States following a face-off with a journalist in Cross River. In Cross River State, Fani-Kayode had lost his cool and insulted Daily Trust Correspondent, Eyo Charles who asked him a simple question on who was bankrolling his tour. Fani-Kayode fell…

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Fani-Kayode under fire for assaulting journalist

Ishaku Yohanna

Ex-Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has come under heavy criticism for verbally attacking a journalist during a press conference in Calabar, the Cross River State capital. Fani-Kayode is seen in a video that had gone viral on social media giving Daily Trust reporter, Eyo Charles, a dressing down for asking him what he termed a stupid question. The encounter was said to have occurred on Thursday 20, August 2020 at a hotel, during a round table with invited journalists when the Daily Trust reporter asked Fani-Kayode who bankrolled his…

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Nigerian journalist shot dead in Nasarawa

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nasarawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Tuesday, condemned the attack and brutal killing of its former treasurer, Benjamin Ekom, by unknown gunmen at his residence in Washo village, Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area (LGA), of the state. The NUJ made its position known in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Salihu Alkali and Sunday John, on Tuesday in Lafia, the state capital. The Union described the attack on innocent residents of the state by criminal elements as one too many, and called…

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