The Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), led by Comrade Tonye Yemoleigha, has reiterated its commitment to train and retrain practicing Journalists in the state.
Yemoleigha gave the hint when the 2024 Information Chapel End of Year Get-together Committee paid the NUJ State Executive Council a courtesy visit at the Ernest Ikoli Press Centre, Azikoro Road, Yenagoa.
He expressed the Council’s readiness to support the Information Chapel programme while urging other chapels of the NUJ to borrow a leaf.
According to him, his administration will soon request every chapel of the NUJ to submit a calendar of activities for 2025 as a way of encouraging them to be active and benefit members more.
The NUJ Council Chairman used the medium to clear the air on the Council’s Membership Audit Committee set up by his administration.
He stated that the audit committee was not to witch-hunt anybody but to among other things ascertain certified members of the NUJ in the state.
He also said that check-off dues would no longer be remitted in cash from January 2025 and enjoined all chapels to forward their bank details to the NUJ State Council Secretariat.
Speaking earlier, chairperson of the 2024 Information Chapel End of Year Get-together Committee, Dr. Sophia Obi, congratulated the new chairman and his exco for emerging victorious at the just concluded NUJ election.
The committee chairperson praised them for the new approach in managing the Council and enjoined the chairman to carry every chapel along in the scheme of things.
Dr. Obi said that the committee’s visit was to intimate the Council on the Chapel’s end of year get-together which is scheduled for 12th and 13th of December and to solicit support.
The two-day event will feature road walk, clean up exercise, indoor games with prizes to be won, news writing, luncheon, lecture as well as recognition of retirees.
Other members of the committee present at the visit are Comrade Godbless Igoniwari, Comrade Ebidisabofa Yikarebogha and Comrade Karamo Meshach.
In a related development, Comrade Tonye Yemoleigha also received in audience the Electoral Committee of the Performing Musicians Artistes Association of Nigeria, PMAN, Bayelsa State in his office today.
He charged performing artists to use their platforms and talents in communicating the right values as society sees them as role models in the face of increasing social ills.
The PMAN Eleco led by Engr. Daniel Abbide also visited the NUJ State Council to seek collaboration and support in its forthcoming State Chapter election next week.
