Aderoboye, Left, with colleagues at the service
Media practitioners have been charged to practice their profession like a calling aimed at service to humanity.
The call came yesterday as Ondo State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ began its 2020 Press Week with a thanksgiving service.
Pastor Michael Gbala of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Higher Glory Cathedral, Akure gave the charge in his sermon at the thanksgiving service with large members of the union in attendance.
He said everybody in the society including government and the masses rely on what journalists write to be informed, saying a nation that is not informed is deformed.
The cleric who spoke on the topic “Journalism and Nation Building,” posited that journalists must be in the forefront if a nation is to be developed.
His words: “If we must build the nation, journalists must be in the forefront. I know that there are many challenges you are facing. You are so important in nation building. Without you there is no way the people can be informed.
Everybody including government and the masses are relying on you and you can’t afford to let us down”
He charged journalists to always bring to the consciousness of leaders the reason to do the right things, saying journalists are privileged people who should know the truth and must discharge their duties without fear.
Gbala charged the gentlemen of the press on the importance of gratitude and thanksgiving particularly in the outgoing year 2020 as he charged journalists to inform the public on the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic
Speaking at the service, the Chairman of the state council of NUJ, Comrade Tona Aderoboye, said given challenges of journalism, it was imperative for journalists in Ondo State to thank God for His grace.
He promised that journalists in the State will continue to discharge their legitimate duties without fear or favour.
