February 10, 2025

PIBCID Takes Advocacy Visit To Kogi NUJ

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By Abubakar Suleman

The Executive Director of Participation Initiative For Behavioural Change in development, PIBCID, Kogi Mrs Rachael Remilekun Akande and her team takes advocacy to the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi state council to seek for support and partnership interms of coverage and publicity.

The team was received by the chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Kogi state council, Comrade Shiedu Ademu alongside with his exco members in his office at lokoja on Thursday.

According to Mrs Akande, “We are here to seek the collaboration of the leadership and members of the union in the state, adding that they are request the assistance of NUJ in raising awareness about it’s project, Advocacy message for strengthening communities’women Institutions for women/Girl child Rights protection.

She also urged the newsmen to use their various platforms to educate the public about women and girls’ rights, gender-based violence, and the importance of community involvement in addressing these issues.

She therefore seek for partnernership and collaboration with NUJ in organising awareness campaigns, mentorship,workshops, and events to engage the community and promote women’s empowerment.

In his own response, the NUJ chairman, Comrade Shiedu Ademu, said he was happy and grateful to the PIBCID team for finding time to visit the council and for recognizing the role of journalists in the task of nation building.

He noted that he is willing to rally all journalists in the state to promote the message of women/Girl child rights protection.

He added that he would mobilise journaists in the state to ensure that the campaign is carried out to the public successfully, calling on journalists to see the need to partner with the team.

On her part, the Secretary of National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Funmilayo Ibikunle assured the team of the commitment of the women journalists to the campaign, stating that as mothers, wives, sisters and professionals they will ensure that the message reaches every family and home both through the mass media and via small focused group interactions and exchanges.

Among those in company of the Executive Director of PIBCID are Ambassador Idris Ozovehe Muraino and other dignitaries.

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