Abia State-based Journalists have told governor Okezie Ikpeazu, who has been re-elected for a second term in office, to see his return as a renewed mandate to consolidate the gains and successes recorded in his first term in office. The journalists under the platform of the Correspondents Chapel of the Abia State Council of the…

Alhaji Bello Matawalle, the PDP governorship candidate in Zamfara, has donated a Peugeot 406 station wagon to the correspondents chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in the state. Matawalle, while presenting the vehicle to the union on Friday in Gusau, commended the nwsmen for remaiming neutral in the coverage of political activities in…

Governor Rochas Okorocha has regretted that those he assisted to positions of authority had betrayed him. Addressing reporters on major developments in Imo, he claimed to have thwarted attempts by the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to hijack the party in the state.…

National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Ralphs Nwosu, has charged the National Assembly to declare Senate President, Bukola Saraki President of the country with immediate effect. He said happenings, especially President Muhammadu Buharis’s ridiculing of the constitution, indicate that the president can no longer continue to rule the nation. In a statement…

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), other institutions and stakeholders to strictly adhere to electoral rules as the only way to achieving free, fair and credible 2019 general elections in the country. Kogi State Chairman of NUJ, Momohjimoh Adeiza stated this at a one day Community Dialogue…

The Chairman Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kebbi State chapter, Alhaji Aliyu Jajarima, has vow to fished out quacks parading themselves as journalists in the state, with a promise to streamline the profession by removing all the irregularities that give it a bad name, as well as end the fake news syndrome. Jajarima, who was…

Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated the newly elected President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Chris Isiguzo, saying his emergence is significant, considering Nigerians are desirous of enthroning a true democratic change in the way they are being governed. Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Charles Aniagwu, extolled…

President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Abdulwaheed Odunsile, has said the union is partnering with technology companies to curb the use of social media to broadcast fake news. Besides, he insisted that the union would continue to picket media outfits, which fail to pay their workers salaries. Odunsile who disclosed this in Kano,…

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), yesterday protested against the incessant harassment, arrests, intimidation and detention of journalists in different parts of the country. In Owerri, Imo State, Chairman of NUJ Caretaker Committee, Francis Ebunugwo and National Trustee, Fidel Onyeneke, as well as immediate past chairman of the council, Innocent Igwe led journalists in the…

Some members of the Nasarawa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Correspondents’ Chapel were on Sunday attacked by suspected armed robbers on Nassarawa-Eggon/Akwanga road in Correspondents’ bus. The members told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they were coming from an official engagement about 10 p.m when they were attacked by…

Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ebonyi State Council has elected new executives that will run the affairs of the Chapel for a three-year tenure. Swearing in the elected leaders, the State Chairman of the Union Deaconess Veronica Osim represented by Mr. Emmanuel Irem applauded the Chapel for conducting themselves throughout the elections,…

The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, has condemned the attack on the secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun State council and some other journalists on Monday. According to reports, “suspected hoodlums attacked some journalists at a press conference addressed by some members of the State Working Committee (SWC) of the ruling All…