2023: Borno To Train 100 Journalists On Election Coverage | Tellwell Newspaper
Tellwell Newspaper, Abuja – Nigeria:
As the country glides towards the 2023 general elections, Borno State Government House is set to train 100 journalists in the state on the coverage of the exercises to guarantee the credibility of their outcome.
The training, which for members of the Borno State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), is to be conducted by the press unit of the Government House in collaboration with the Department of Mass Communication of the University of Maiduguri.
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has already directed his media aides to ensure the actualization of the training at the end of which certificates will be issued to the100 journalists.
Governor Zulum made this announcement in a message congratulating the newly-elected executives of the Borno State Council of the NUJ.
In the message issued by his spokesman and Communication Strategist, Isa Gusau, the governor specifically congratulated the new chairman of the NUJ in Borno State, Comrade Dauda Iliya of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN.
Zulum also congratulated AbdulKareem Haruna, publisher of Humanitarian Times, who was elected Vice Chairman, as well as Ali Chiroma of Peace FM, Maiduguri, elected Secretary of the Council.
The Governor commended the outgoing chairman, Babagana Bukar for his display of maturity in conceding defeat and for leading the council to the conduct of a free and fair election.
He also commended Timothy Butu and Fatima Mustapha, both of the Borno State Ministry of Information Chapel, for their sportsmanship in the respective contests for offices of Vice Chairman and Secretary.
Zulum congratulated other executives elected unopposed, who included Hauwa Bata of Peace FM- Treasurer, Iya Maaji of NTA- Assistant Secretary, Babagana Ali of Borno Radio and Television, BRTV- Financial Secretary and Babagana Liman of the Borno state Ministry of Information Chapel- Auditor.
Governor Zulum specially praised journalists in Borno State for the very high standard they were able to set by holding very peaceful and issue-based campaigns with the climax being a qualitative election that should be learned from the NUJ.
Zulum commended visiting officials from the northeast zonal headquarters of the NUJ who supervised the election.
The Governor directed his media aides to accord maximum support to the incoming state executives of the NUJ particularly on sustaining the existing atmosphere in which journalists freely and independently operate, and on ensuring access to information, in addition to matters of journalists’ welfare, training and retraining, as may be required by the NUJ, should they seek Government’s support.
In the build up to the election, Governor Zulum had supported the NUJ with funds for the election and by refusing to endorse any of the contestants, declaring all aspirants and their supporters as his own, without preference.
