BE OBJECTIVE, FAIR DG charged Journalists

As part of its corporate responsibility in boosting Publicity, the Industrial Training Fund recently organised a one-day interactive forum for the Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ) at the Fund’s Center for Excellence, Bukuru. Declaring the session open, the Director General of the Industrial Training Fund, Prof. Longmas S. Wapmuk, represented by the Head of Public Relations, Publicity and External Relations Unit, Sir. Joseph N. Ari charged journalist “not to relent in upholding their well known repute of objectivity, fairness and unbias reporting”.

He expressed happiness and solicited for further cementing of the already existing relationship between ITF and the Nigeria Union of Journalists.

The guest speaker, Prof. Dakas C. J. Dakas of the Law Faculty, University of Jos, spoke on ethics of the profession as well as how to avoid libel and slander in the discharge of one’s duty. The Chairman of the Chapel, Katdaba Gobum expressed great appreciation while describing ITF as the pace-setter in Human Capital Development in Nigeria. He further emphasized that only through such educative sessions that Journalists could advance their professional practice.