Osun NUJ Urges Gov Adeleke To Issue Letter Of Employment To 66 OSBC Freelance Staff

• Inaugurates 2024 Press Week Committees

• Sets Up A 5-member Ethics And Disciplinary Committee

The Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ, Osun State Council has inaugurated various committees that will conduct the 2024 Osun NUJ Press Week.

The committees, numbering 11 were saddled with the conducting various activities lined up to ensuring a successful and hitch free week long programmes for the Press Week.

Inaugurating the committees at the monthly congress of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists,held at the Press Centre, Osogbo, Chairman of the Council, Comrade Wasiu Ajadosu charged members of various committees to perform the task given them diligently in order to ensure a successful 2024 Osun NUJ Press Week.

Ajadosu assured that the 2024 Osun NUJ Press Week which has been scheduled to hold between October 18th and 27th ,2024 will stand out from previous editions.

He promised full support of the executive committee for the programme.

The committees includes, Jumat Service, Sunday Service, Opening Ceremony, Public Lecture, Health Walk, Sports, Award/Dinner, Asun Night, Professional Award and Medical Check Up.

Responding on behalf of other committees, Chairman, Public Lecture committee, and Assistant Secretary, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Osun State Council, Comrade Oluwamayowa Fagboungbe, promised to leverage on previous experience to deliver on the task ahead,describing the task as call to service.

The monthly Congress of the Osun State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists also appealed to Governor Ademola Adeleke to, without delay, direct appropriate government machinery to release letter of employment to 66 freelance staff of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, OSBC, Ile-Awiye, Oke-Baale, Osogbo who have been ordered by the Governor to be fully engaged as full fledged staff since May 22nd this year.

The Nigeria Union of Journalists concluded that non-issuance of employment letters to the 66 freelance staff is dragging too long, having secured the mandate of the Governor to be duly engaged permanently.

It described their suffering and long wait as unacceptable to the union and called on Mr.Governor to urgently look into the issue.

A 5-member Ethics and Disciplinary Committee, headed by a former chairman, OSBC Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Alhaji Oluwatoyin Yussuf, was also inaugurated at the Congress.

The Ethics and Disciplinary Committee,which also housed Comrades Boladale Bamigbola,a former state secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kehinde Siyanbola,Jide Akano and Joshua Dada will work with relevant sections of the NUJ Constitution to trash various Disciplinary issues emanating within the union in the state.

The well attended Congress also deliberated on the fast approaching 2024 Triennial Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Union of Journalists scheduled for Owerri, capital of Imo State in November.