Members of the Gist Newspaper and Magazine Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists have been charged to keep to the standard of journalism practice as applicable in Rivers State and in the country.
Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Rivers State Council, Mr Stanley Job Stanley, gave the charge while speaking at the second inauguration of the chapel in Port Harcourt, saying that journalism has no room for mediocre hence members must professional in their conducts.
“In line with the practice, Nigerian journalists are always proactive when it comes to information dissemination to the general public. Be therefore encouraged to do the needful and be up and doing”.
Responding the chairman of the newly inaugurated chapel Mr. Amaike Ihuoma Okoronkwo thanked members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists NUJ Rivers State Council for honouring the inauguration. He pleaded with the State Executive Council, SEC, to assist the chapel professionally to get better.
“I want to thank our chairman, Mr. Stanley Job Stanley on behalf of the SEC for this second inauguration. I will assure you that we are ready to run properly as a chapel but would want you as the state chairman to always come to our aid anytime we call on you for such assistance. We are not coming back to join any queue but as a chapel that was on ground, we are back to lead in the areas peculiar to our reading audience in line with journalism practice,” he said.
The State Chairman of NAWOJ, Mrs. Susan Serekara Nwikhana used the medium to call on the female members of the chapel to fully identify with her association at the state level.
She eulogised the efforts of the publisher, Mrs. Sotonye Toby Fulton in ensuring that The Gist Newspaper and Magazine become re-invigorated in the state.
