JOURNALISTS TO BE EQUIPPED TO FORESTALL HARASSMENT
Journalists in Nigeria have been advised to submit themselves to adequate knowledge about the nitty-gritty and ethics of their profession to forestall unethical conduct or harassment from powers that be in the society.
This was disclosed on Thursday by a political and communication strategist, Dr Festus Adedayo at the virtual training held at https://meet.google.com/xnu-ukim-dsj for Media workers to equip themselves to tackle varying challenges in the course of their duty.
The virtual discourse which was with the theme “Journalism Under Siege in Nigeria, The Urgency and Justification for Media Activism” frowned at Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s outburst against a Daily Trust Newspaper Correspondent in Cross River State, Mr Charles Eyo in Calabar recently.
Dr Adedayo had suggested the immediate need for Press Constitutional Conference to chart a new modality and template for Media workers to further entrench professionalism in the discharge of their duties.
Some members of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun State Council had converged at the Press Centre, Iwo/Ibadan road, Osogbo to join in the virtual discourse.
Also, another speaker, Mr Suleiman Aledeh who encouraged professional Journalists to bend over backwards to maintain their stand without compromise maintained that journalists were expected to stage a walk-out on whoever intends to harass them in the line of their constitutional obligation.
Mr Aledeh solicited for constant training and retraining of Journalists to distinguish themselves amidst the crowd as well as having multiple streams of income to maintain self-confidence and self-esteem in the media practitioners.
He berated some owners of Media outfits who are endlessly owing their professional workers, thereby subjecting them to economic hardship, noting that this has increasingly made the professionalism to come under a serious attack in Nigerian Journalism practice.
Earlier, Osun NUJ Council acting Chairman, Comrade Wasiu Ajadosu has expressed appreciation to the facilitators for the opportunity and hope that the one-day workshop was expedient to enlighten Journalists on how to tackle unprecedented challenges in the face of provocation
Site Title 