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We Won’t Relent In Our Pursuit Of Journalism Excellence –Adefaye
BY CAMI EZENWA
The provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Mr Gbenga Adefaye has said the management of the school would not relent on its pursuit of journalism excellence.
Mr Adefaye made the declaration today during the matriculation of 267 news intakes for the 2020/2021 academic session.
He said the school would strive to provide a most conducive learning environment, constantly upgrade its equipment and facilities to meet the current and future best practices.
Adefaye said the school recently benefitted from a digitisation support of the National Communication Commission (NCC) for seamless internet connectivity and cloud hosting as an upgrade of its Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre originally supported by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
“As an institution, we recently launched our Internet radio, Pen Radio which should assist in delivery of quality hands-on training. This is as we process our campus radio license.
“In the works is our plan to run an online newspaper. Our students are award winners in the various competitions with peers in other polytechnic and universities”, he said.
Given a breakdown of those who participated in the matriculation, Adefaye said 68 were of the National Diploma (ND) programme, 96 of the Higher National Diploma (HND) and 103 students of the Post-Graduate Diploma (PGD) programme.
He urged the students to take note of the school’s rule on mandatory attendance to lectures and obligatory Continuius Assessment through class work and assignments, adding that infractions of these rules were seriously frowned at by the school.
The provost also urged the new intakes to look forward to field trips to media houses, Students Industrial Work Experience (SIWES) for National Diploma students, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) competition and students’ week.
Others are intercollegiate competition and the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) for HND students.
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“Our record so far is that of smooth running of the academic sessions without any interruptions. It is a thing of pride for us to give a guarantee of seamless training with certainty on your year of graduation. There are no strikes, no disruption of scheduled programmes”, he said..
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February 19, 2021 at 9:02 am
Shedding innocent blood is not the way forward & I call on the Nigerian Army to show restraint” Says the former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode.
He said this on his Twitter handle while expressing his displeasure over the Nigerian Army’s deployment of soldiers and helicopters in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State in search of camps occupied by the personnel of Eastern Security Network (ESN) linked with Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
Several unverified comments on twitter suggested that the Nigerian Army is bombarding Orlu, with several people killed which triggered people like Fani Kayode to express their displeasure and dissatisfaction towards the Nigerian Army force action.
According to him, “The bombing & killing of innocent men, women & children in Orlu, Anambra state by soldiers of the Nig. Army is totally & completely unacceptable & I wholeheartedly condemn it. Shedding innocent blood is not the way forward so it should stop with immediate effect.
Other users made their opinion known concerning the deployment as well;
According to Oluyemi Fasipe “Why are they bombing Orlu while doing get-together parties with terrorists (bandits) in the north?”
Oluchi Christy said “Nigerian government deployed soldiers to Orlu to attack ESN and innocent Orlu Community, Imo State, but sent Northern Governors and Sheik Gumi to dialogue with Fulani terrorists and killer herdsmen.”
Ifa Funso stated that “Too obvious that Nigeria governments are behind Boko Haram, bandits and Fulani herdsmen. I don’t know how a sane government will channel their power more on innocent people in Orlu than the terrorists in Sambisa forest.”
However, the Nigerian Army responded in a statement posted on the verified twitter handle of Nigerian Government saying: “The Nigerian Army, in line with its constitutional mandate, wishes to reassure the general public that troops in operational synergy with sister security agencies are in pursuit of the criminal elements in order to ensure safe return of the kidnapped victims.”