Niger Delta
RSNC GM Charges Journalists On FOIA
General Manager of the Rivers State Newspaper Corporation (RSNC), Mr Vincent Ake, has challenged journalists to exploit the use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to improve government and society.
Ake gave the charge at the weekend while speaking as chairman of the 2019 World Press Freedom Day organized by the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Rivers State Chapter in Port Harcourt.
“I don’t think journalist are using the FOIA to the maximum “Ake remarked” journalists have the responsibility to use it to better their work and Society”.
Commenting on the commercialization of news, the RSNC General Manager who of the opinion that public interest remained sacrosanct and above profit making.
The former National Deputy President of NUJ also counselled journalists on fair and balanced reporting as he reaffirmed that political reporting requires fact and objectivity.
On why smaller political parties were not given adequate coverage, the veteran journalist submitted that such parties do not attract media coverage due to the fact that they do not assert themselves in the political area.
Ake tasked journalists to upgrade their knowledge as a way of building themselves to meet challenges in the profession.
Earlier, state Chairman of the NUJ, Comrade Stanley Job Stanley averred that the World Press Freedom Day remained significant in promoting the work and services journalists do in the society.
Comrade Stanley commended all stakeholders, including newsmen who risk their lives to provide information, while stressing the need for government and society to provide support for them to operate freely.
Niger Delta
Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
Kiadum Edookor
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