Information Commissioner Tasks Women Journalists on Mutual Support, Cooperation

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Information Commissioner Tasks Women Journalists on Mutual Support, Cooperation

As part of her campaign tour which kicked off recently in Bayelsa State, Comrade Mrs Timi Jombo Idoko, candidate for the post of Deputy National President in the forthcoming Triennial Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ,
has paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Information, Strategy and Orientation, Bayelsa State.

The visit, according to Comrade Grace Ijeoma Umeh, former Chairperson, NAWOJ, Edo State, DG, Timi Idoko Campaign Organization, is dual in nature, first, to inform the Honorable Commissioner and Staff of the Ministry of the aspiration of the frontline candidate and then to sensitize them on the need for mutual cooperation and support in order for her to have a successful outing at the polls.

Welcoming the candidate and her campaign team to his office at Water Board Road, Ovum, Yenagoa, the Honourable Commissioner, Mr Ayuba Duba, praised Idoko for her resilience in unionism and commitment to the NAWOJ Project, describing her as a unionist to the core.

The Commissioner encouraged women journalists in the state to rally round their own and ensure her victory, stating that it will be a crowning moment for the union and the state in general.
” There is nothing as good as home base support in elections of this magnitude, any election for that matter.

Your support will boost her moral in ensuring victory.” He stated.

Earlier, Comrade Mrs Timinepere Jombo Idoko gave the Commissioner a brief on the forthcoming Triennial Delegates Conference, informed him of her aspiration and appealed for the Ministry’s support.

Mrs Idoko reiterated her advancement in NAWOJ, stating that she has been a State Chairperson, Zonal Vice President for two tenures, stressing that with the experience gained in the course of her leadership in the State and Zone, she deemed it fit to serve at the National level to give a voice to the State and the Zone and support in rebuilding an association that is 31 years old and in dire need of stability and progress.

She promised that in going higher, she will not disappoint the State, Zone and Nigeria as a whole.

NOA APPEALS TO LABOUR TO SUSPEND PROTEST, DIALOGUE WITH GOVT.

                  PRESS RELEASE

NOA APPEALS TO LABOUR TO SUSPEND PROTEST, DIALOGUE WITH GOVT.

As organised labour plans for nationwide protest on Monday, The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has appealed to labour leaders in the country to continue to engage government through dialogue in order to find a common ground on the issue of fuel and electricity price hikes.

Director General of the Agency, Dr. Garba Abari in a special message to the two main Labour organisations urged their leaders to continue to avail themselves of the platforms for debate and negotiations provided by government,  especially now when government is making effort to reactivate the economy following the global economic slow down occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to him, “calling for protests and strikes at this period hardly can help in the very difficult task of navigating the nation through the challenges thrown up by the impact of COVID19″

The Agency also appealed to Nigerians to come to terms with the economic realities of the time which require aggressive revenue drive, removal of unsustainable subsidies as a way of growing the economy and attracting the needed investment funds into the country.

“ we should be talking about how to create jobs and this is the time to let private enterprises and investments determine the cost of goods and services inorder to provide jobs and services in the country. What government is doing is simply to provide the environment for huge private sector investment in the oil and gas sectors and energy sub-sector” he said.

The Director General also called on labour to inspire a new sense of productivity among workers that will ensure greater output and growth in the economy.

Paul odenyi

Assistant Director, Press.

NOA APPEALS TO LABOUR TO SUSPEND PROTEST, DIALOGUE WITH GOVT.

                  PRESS RELEASE

NOA APPEALS TO LABOUR TO SUSPEND PROTEST, DIALOGUE WITH GOVT.

As organised labour plans for nationwide protest on Monday, The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has appealed to labour leaders in the country to continue to engage government through dialogue in order to find a common ground on the issue of fuel and electricity price hikes.

Director General of the Agency, Dr. Garba Abari in a special message to the two main Labour organisations urged their leaders to continue to avail themselves of the platforms for debate and negotiations provided by government,  especially now when government is making effort to reactivate the economy following the global economic slow down occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to him, “calling for protests and strikes at this period hardly can help in the very difficult task of navigating the nation through the challenges thrown up by the impact of COVID19″

The Agency also appealed to Nigerians to come to terms with the economic realities of the time which require aggressive revenue drive, removal of unsustainable subsidies as a way of growing the economy and attracting the needed investment funds into the country.

“ we should be talking about how to create jobs and this is the time to let private enterprises and investments determine the cost of goods and services inorder to provide jobs and services in the country. What government is doing is simply to provide the environment for huge private sector investment in the oil and gas sectors and energy sub-sector” he said.

The Director General also called on labour to inspire a new sense of productivity among workers that will ensure greater output and growth in the economy.

Paul odenyi

Assistant Director, Press.