Olufunke Aladejare
The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Felix Ajakaye, has urged media practitioner in the country to promote national development through positive reportage.
The religious leader who described journalism as one of the noble profession in the country, stressed the needs for journalist to always criticize positivity in their reportage, saying it is only through this, more developments and progress will come to the country.
Bishop Ajakaye stated this in Ado-Ekiti, while playing host to members of the executives Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Ekiti State Council, led by the Chairman Comrade Kayode Babatuyi.
Describing Nigeria as a good country that he so much love, the Catholic Priest urged Nigerians to change their orientations by critisising positivity about developments and ha in the country.
The Bishop commended Journalists in Ekiti State for their supports to the government, while also enjoining them to continue in the same vain for a better Nigeria.
The Catholic Priest prayed for all members of the council and promised to take their grievances to the appropriate channel, while also assuring them of his continuous supports to the union.
Earlier, the Chairman Ekiti NUJ, Comrade Kayode Babatuyi, thanked the Bishop for his supports to the union, stressing that the visit was to intimate him about various challenges confronting the union in the state.
Babatuyi, said the Bishop as member of the union has contributed immensely to the development of the union.
Lamenting that NUJ Ekiti State council is the NUJ council in the country without no befitting secretariat and vehicle, he appealed to the Bishop to use his position to relate with the Ekiti State Government and come to the aide of the union.
The NUJ Chairman equally announced a proposed media summit to be organised by the union later in April this year, where the Ekiti Catholic Bishop will deliver a lecture and present an award to him as part of his contributions to the development of the union.
On his part, the immediate past Chairman of the council, Comrade Rotimi Ojomoyela, lamented on what he called shortchanged melted on the union by successive governments in the state.
Ojomoyela appealed to the Bishop to use his exalted position and appeal to the Ekiti State Government to build a befeiting secretariat for the council.
The visit had in attendance the Chairperson Nigeria Association of Woman Journalists (NAWOJ) Ekiti State Council, Adewumi Ademiju, members of the executive council, among others.