Media Summit: NUJ Bayelsa Council Applauds Stakeholders for Success
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Bayelsa State Council has applauded the Bayelsa State Government, top government functionaries, sister Unions, the academia and other critical stakeholders for their support and assistance which culminated in the huge success of the recently-concluded Media Summit.
This is one of the fallouts of the monthly Congress meeting of the Bayelsa State Council of the NUJ held at the Ernest Ikoli Press Centre, Yenagoa on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of the Communique Drafting Committee, Chris Odi, the Congress commended members of the Comrade Tarinyo Akono-led Media Summit Steering Committee and the entire members of the Union for their commitment towards the success of the two-day event.
While noting that the trailblazing Bayelsa Media Summit was already yielding dividends, Congress expressed solidarity with the Rivers State Council of the NUJ, which was planning to host its own Media Summit, with a 25-man Committee already inaugurated.
The Congress expressed its readiness to extend moral and technical support to its sister Rivers Council to ensure a successful summit, if it was requested to do so.
The Congress of the Bayelsa NUJ also called on security agencies in the state to step up their game to check the spate of killings in Yenagoa and its environs to return the city to the peaceful state capital that it used to be.
The Congress particularly frowned at the case of Daniel Ayama, a fresh graduate of the Federal University, Otuoke, who was reportedly killed around INEC Junction on Friday, May 26, 2025.
Congress in session called on the State Special Committee on Security and Human Rights Violations that is looking into the matter, to carry out a thorough investigation with a view to unravelling the circumstances surrounding the death of the 26-year-old Ayama, and the culprits brought to book; while lauding Governor Douye Diri for donating operational vehicles to the NPF as it is strategic to security in Bayelsa State.
Congress equally enjoined parents, families and communities to pay more attention to the upbringing of their children, insisting on the return to the African value of communal ownership of the child.
Congress commended the Council Chairman, Comrade Tonye Yemoleigha and his Exco for the leadership foresight and new paradigm it has given Council within a short period in office.
