No fewer than 200 journalists, drawn from across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja will be converging in Jalingo, Taraba State capital for a three-day National Media Summit.
To this end, the National Leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has inaugurated Committees for the successful hosting of the summit scheduled to hold between the 17th and the 19th of November 2025.
The National Secretariat of the NUJ is organising the event in collaboration with the Taraba State Government.
The vice president, Zone E, Mr Zare Baba who represented the NUJ national president, Alhassan Yahya, charged the committee members to put in their best for the success of the summit.
“I have been directed by the National President to expeditiously constitute the Local Organizing Committee and the sub-committees that will handle the organization and conduct of the National Media Summit.
“It is in the light of this that you have been carefully selected based on your pedigree, capacity, based on the stuff you have and the confidence the Union has in you to deliver on your various assignments.
“We carefully constituted an 11-member committee that has been appropriated to sub-committees.
“This is very instructive to all of us. We should take these assignments very seriously and treat them expeditiously because time is not on our side.
“Each sub-committee is required to swing into action and come up with your budgets and how you feel you can deliver on your assignments successfully without any hitch. Your budgets should be realistic, achievable as the case maybe.
“The success of this Summit from the beginning to the end, lies sorely on your shoulders. If it succeeds, the credit goes to you, and if it fails, the blame goes to you.
“This is a call to duty. As you are Inaugurated today, just swing into action. In the next one or two days, we expect nothing but your budgets and that budget will be transmitted to the National Secretariat for scrutiny and all funds will be made available immediately.
“You are also at liberty to co-opt any member that you feel can contribute effectively to the success of this assignment.”
The chairman of the Council, Matthew Eliud Jen, had earlier stressed the commitment of the Council towards hosting a successful summit.
The main Local Organizing Committee is to be supervised by the zonal vice president, Mr Zare Baba, and to be chaired by the chairman of the Taraba State Council, Mr Matthew Eliud Jen, while a national ex-officio, Mr Lynn Adda will serve as the secretary.
The Conference Sub-Committee has Waziri Abubakar Hardawa, the zonal secretary as the Supervisor, Ado Adamu, also, vice chairman of the Taraba State Council as the chairman of the Committee with Mr Justine Tyopusuu as the secretary.
The Accommodation, Logistics and Transport Sub-Committee has Wole Ayodele as chairman, and Linda Adebayo and Williams Ayooso as members while Gabriel Yough is to serve as secretary.
The Entertainment and Feeding Committee has Sarah Mudwa as chairman, Linda Gwana as member and Apollos Dennis Gilenya as secretary.
Responding on behalf of the Committee members, Mr Gabriel Yough who is the chairman of the Correspondents’ Chapel, thanked the NUJ national president for the confidence reposed in them.
He pledged that the committee would do everything humanly possible to make the president proud through a robust organization.
