Adenuga David
Matric NO. NMC/10/1457
Story of NUJ
Journalism
profession has come a long way in Nigeria since the establishment of
(Iwe Iroyin fun awon ara egba ati Yoruba) in Abeokuta, 147 years ago by
the British missionaries. Un-arguably, it stands out as one of the
oldest modern professions to take root and flourish in Nigeria.
However, Nigerian Union of Journalist have come of age as both of the
professional bodies and a trade union group, it also serve as a platform
for leadership training and anti colonial struggle under the British
colonial rule.
Apparently, our founding father saw journalism as a
weapon for fighting against oppression and injustice by the colonial
system of government. Example of earliest newspapers existing then were
Lagos times ( 1880-1883), Lagos observer(1882), Lagos weekly
record(1883), chronicle(1908), Nigerian times(1910), African
messenger(1921) and west African Pilot in 1937.
The Nigerian Union
of Journalist founded on March 15 1955 marks the beginning of a silent
revolution by nationalist for the independence of Nigeria. This
nationalist includes Nnamdi Azikwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Herbert
Macauley, Chief H.O Davies. Since 1995, the Union had 15 presidents with
Mr. Mobolaji Johnson Odunewu 1955-1960 has the first president while
Mohammed Garba is the current president.
Similarly, NUJ have had
five national secretaries with Chief Olu Oyesanya (1955-1959) as the
first secretary and Shu’alibu usman leman (2002-till date) as the
current national secretary.
The Union has a training wing, The
International Institute of Journalist which was establish towards the
realization of its vision to train and retrain its members and also to
make them adequately contribute to national development. Presently, the
registered membership of NUJ is above 25,000
ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM OF NIGERIA NEWS WIRE
WWW.NIGERIANEWSWIRE.NET
Nigeria news wire is a news aggregator website which aggregate news
from different sources around the web and display a summary of them in
an unaltered format. Thus, this website are not responsible for such
news neither do they claim ownership of the news.
This website is
not the owner of any of the articles, document, manuals help files,
official reports or other documents available in the
www.nigeriannewswire.net web pages. Also, it does not hold copyrights on
any of the materials publish on its website.
It is also a search
engine/aggregator website that facilitate access to the content of the
reference news site. As with any other search engines, the articles are
accessible by direct link, the user must go to the publisher’s site to
read them.
Criticism
This site cannot be rely upon based on
accuracy as they don’t copyrights on any of the material published on
its website. As a result of this, information might be authentic and
stories might be filled with lies and rumors, yet some might be true but
with no credible source.
Majority of news stories are stale as they
consist of old events which can’t be considered as news. Thus, this
site is not highly informed for it to inform its readers based on
current happenings.
Moreover, this site can’t be manipulated by any
right thinking memberof the society i.e a sane person to falsify facts,
opinions, news stories for his or her own political ambition or
advantage.
Apparently, there is no advertisement, humorous, columns,
games, infact, the page consist of just six years which are: about
contact, Nigeria news, Nigeria news wire, private policy. The page is
too empty with jus
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