I CRY FOR NIGERIAN JOURNALISM

By Ibrahim Na'ayi Salihu (1) That people of any discipline STRAY into it. (2) That those who STRAYED into it in the name of practitioners are not given even a rudimentary training, but are allowed to do it the way they choose. (3) That people are mostly given identity cards called " meal tickets" by supposed employers. Which means one should use such cards to fend for themselves as they will not receive any pay for services rendered - hence the emergence of rampant corruption in the news media. (4) That the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) is handicapped because the news media executives who perpetrate No.3 above are the employers of the NUJ executives. Those media executives do not see the NUJ executives as partners but rather as their underdogs. (5) Similarly, all the news media regulatory bodies such as the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Newspaper Proprietors Association (NPA), Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and the NUJ itsel...