The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Information, Mr Olusina Thorpe, has called on journalists in Lagos and other South West zone to rise above personal interest and ensure the promotion of national interest and national unity. Thorpe made the…
A former Editor-In-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), Mr PeterIdonije Obakhedo, has been diagnosed as a stage 5 patient of chronic kidney disease, secondary to diabetec nephropathy. Following series of medical tests, the NAN retiree is left with no…
A former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba has called on the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), to clamp down on quack Journalists. The Elder Statesman made the call during a courtesy visit by NUJ Lagos State Council Executive…
As the World marks the day against child labour today, the chairperson of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists, Lagos state chapter Comrade Adeola Ekine calls on government both at the state and federal levels to make and implement more…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State Council has described the suspension of the micro blogging and social networking service, Twitter- as undemocratic. The Council noted that for democracy to be sustained, it must be backed up with freedom…
Lagos NUJ remembers Alhaji Ladi Lawal, former Group Managing Director (GMD) of Daar Communications who died on the 23rd of May, 2009, making it 12 years today. Ladi Lawal was Chairman of NUJ Lagos State Council between 1991 and 1994.…
Her Royal Highness, Erelu (Dr.) Abiola Dosumu, Erelu Kuti IV of Lagos has thrown more weight behind the call to reject bail for rape offences. She made the call during the visit of the Executive members of Lagos State Council…
A former Editor-In-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), Mr Peter Idonije Obakhedo, has been diagnosed as a stage 5 patient of chronic kidney disease, secondary to diabetec nephropathy.Following series of medical tests, the NAN retiree is left with no choice…
“The industry that weave learning into the fabric of their cultures are the ones that will win in today’s rapidly changing business environment” This is the reason Ajayi led administration PROMISED Training and Retraining of our members to help them…
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), was founded on March 15th 1955 in Lagos, the then Capital City of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The union had some early nationalists with the fire of patriotism and nationalism burning in them and their writings included the first Governor General of Nigeria, the late Owelle of Onitsha, the Rt Hon (Dr.) Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first Premier of the defunct Western Region, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa; the late Herbert Macaulay and Chief H. O. Davies who with the launch of the Yoruba vernacular newspaper “Iwe Irohin ni Ede Yoruba”, founded by the late Rev. Ajayi Crowther in Abeokuta, in 1929, wrote powerfully, in their newspapers, columns on the need for Nigeria’s self-rule. The NUJ’s birth was linked to the struggle for the independence of Nigeria. The struggle, it would be recalled gave birth to many protest groups, all yearning for the country’s independence from the British. The groups came in various shades.
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