BY LAW IBITOYE
The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Felix Ajakaiye, has urged media practitioners to embrace developmental journalism be positive in their reportage.
The religious leader who described journalism as one of the noble professions in the country, stressed the need for journalists to be positive in their criticism , saying that would bring more developments and progress to the country.
Bishop Ajakaye spoke on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, when he received members of the executives of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Ekiti State Council, Led by its Chairman, Comrade Kayode Babatuyi who paid him a courtesy visit.
Describing Nigeria as a good country that he so much loved , the Catholic Priest urged people of the country to change their orientations by criticizing positively about developments in the country.
The Bishop thanked Journalists in Ekiti State over what he described as their support to the government at all the time, urged them to continue in the same vein, assured that Nigeria as a country will soon be better for all to live in .
The Catholic Priest later prayed for all members of the council and promised to take their grievances to the appropriate channel, assured them of his continuous support for the union.
Earlier, the Chairman Ekiti NUJ, Comrade Kayode Babatuyi, thanked the Bishop for his support to the union, said the visit is 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.
Comrade Babatuyi pleaded with the Bishop to use his good office to enlist the support of Governor Oyebanji to give the union a beffiting press Centre and bus. According to the Chairman, Ekiti state NUJ council is the only council without press center and union bus
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.
Echoing the voice of the Chairman, 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 to appeal to the Ekiti State Government to build a befeiting secretariat for the council.
The visit which has in attendance the Chairperson of Nigeria Association of Woman Journalists (NAWOJ) Ekiti State Council, Mrs Adewumi Ademiju and other members of the executive council among others.