The Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Catholic Diocese, Felix Ajakaye, on Tuesday urged media practitioner in the country to always be positive in their reportage.
The religious leader who described journalism as one of the noble profession in the country, stressed the needs for journalist to always criticize positivity in their reportage, saying it is only through this, more developments and progress will come to the country.
Bishop Ajakaye spoke on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, when he received members of the executives Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Ekiti State Council, Les by the Chairman Comrade Kayode Babatuyi who paid him a courtesy visit.
Describing Nigeria as a good country that he so much love, the Catholic Priest urged people of the country to change their orientations by critisising positivity about developments and ha in the country.
The Bishop thanked Journalists in Ekiti State over what he described as their supports to the government at all the time, urged them to continue in the same vain, assured that Nigeria as a country will soon be better for all.
The Catholic Priest later prayed for all members of the council and promised to take their grievances to the appropriate channel, assured them of his continuous supports to the union.
Earlier, the Chairman Ekiti NUJ, Comrade Kayode Babatuyi, thanked the Bishop for his supports to the union, said the visit is to intimate him about various challenges confronting the union in the state.
Babatuyi, said the Bishop as member of the union has contributed immensely to the development of the union.
Lamenting that NUJ Ekiti State council is the NUJ council in the country without no befeiting secretariat and vehicle, appealed to the Bishop to use his position to beg the Ekiti State Government and come to the aide of the union.
The NUJ Chairman equally announced a proposed media summit to be organise by the union later in April this year, where the Ekiti Catholic Bishop will deliver a lecture and present an award
to him as part of his contributions to the development of the union.
Echoing the voice of the Chairman, the immediate past Chairman of the council, Comrade Rotimi Ojomoyela, lamented on what he called shortchanged melted on the union by successive governments in the state.
Ojomoyela appealed to the Bishop to use his exalted position and appeal to the Ekiti State Government to build a befeiting secretariat for the council.
The visit which have in attendance the Chairperson Nigeria Association of Woman Journalists (NAWOJ) Ekiti State Council, Mrs Adewumi Ademiju and other members of the executive council among others.
