…embarks on road walk, visits orphanages
There was an air of camaraderie and social networking as journalists and members of the fifteen chapels which make up the Edo State’s Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) today, Thursday, December 7, 2023, conglomerated away from their busy field schedules to celebrate the Edo NUJ organized Press Week.
Journalists and members of the fourth estate of the realm mingled together, taking selfie shots and group photographs as they embarked on a road walk round selected streets to sensitize the public about the press week as well as educate people on the need to desist from targeting or unleashing violence on practitioners as they go about doing their job.
Members of the union later proceeded on a humanitarian visit to Felicity Shelter Home and Amadin Orphanage.
Speaking with the Chairman, Edo NUJ, on highlights of the press week, Comrade Festus Alenkhe said the week apart from being an annual event had a visitation segment to orphanages added this year to enable the union distribute the milk of human kindness to the less privileged in the society. The road walk he said, was a sensitization move to make people know that journalists in Edo State are out to have a successful press week.
The chairman said the visitation to orphanages was expedient because “we considered orphans who live in orphanages as stakeholders in society hence journalists felt the need to donate items and consumables to them” also, in the course of three days there will be a be public lecture on Friday December 8, 2023, at the press centre at No. 1 Sir Gabriel Igbinedion Way, GRA, Benin City, with a resource person from the academia delivering a keynote lecture on, “Unionism and development drive: A panacea for democratic advancement.”
He said there will be a presentation of awards to some distinguished members of society on Saturday December 9, 2023, while the press week will be rounded off with a get together party.
He said the press week was an avenue to bond, create love and unity in the union. Journalists, he observed, were happy during the road walk despite the distance trekked; this is laudable.
