Rivers
NAWOJ Boss Advises Members On Social Media
Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of Nigeria Association of women Journlists (NAWOJ), Mrs Lilian Okonkwo has stressed the need for female journalists in the state to catch up with the current trend in social media.
Okonkwo, who stated this during a one-day training programme organised by State NAWOJ in partnership with Collaborative Living and Development Initiative (COLIDEIN) on personal development, held at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat in Port Harcourt last Tuesday said there was need for training and re-training of members.
She said: “the world we know now is a global village in which lots of work are done via the social media, training programmes such as this would properly package the female professional journalists in the state to stand out and compete favourably with their counterparts in other parts of the world.
Her words: “I noticed that a lot of people access scholarship and Business proposals via the internet and opined there is need for female journalists in the state to be trained on how to access these scholarships and how to write good Business proposals”.
“We cannot limit ourselves, we cannot remain at a spot, but to move forward, and how we can move forward is to build on capacity, know what people are doing”.
She expressed her displeasure over members’ poor attitude to meetings and training programmes such as this, which is meant to help uplift their well being and make them stand out in their carrier, adding that such lack-luster, results to lack of political will and docility which would not take them to their expected heights.
She urged members to avail themselves of the several opportunities explored through the social media, adding that many women journalists had been at the low ebb of performance.
On her part, the Coordinator of Collaborative Living and Development Initiative (COLIDEIN), a non-governmental organisation, Chidinma Mbaegbu charged NAWOJ members to pay greater attention to personal development than anything else, saying that until you discover yourselves you will remain a nobody.
In her response, the pioneer NAWOJ chairman, Mrs Uche Atuzie said she and other participants benefitted immensely from the training, pointing out that the scholarship programme is very important to the lives of the beneficiaries.
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