Benue NUJ lifts ban on coverage of SUBEB’s activities, as Gov Alia intervenes

From Attah Ede Makurdi

The Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Benue State council, has lifted its earlier ban on coverage of State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, activities in the state.

The Chairman of the chapel, Bem Antswen and Assistant Secretary Cephas Iorhemen in a communique after an emergency meeting in Makurdi, said congress resolved to lift the ban on Grace Adagba-led SUBEB, following personal intervention in the matter by Governor Hyacinth Alia for peace to reign.

In the communique, Antswen and Iorhemen described Governor Alia’s intervention as timely, adding that congress equally reiterated collective resolve to continue to support the governor’s administration through positive reportage, in order to put the state on the fast lane of development.

The communique recalled that the chapel had earlier this month, slammed a ban on the coverage of SUBEB activities, following uncomplimentary utterances of the executive secretary of the Board, Grace Adagba.

Adagba had during a courtesy call on her by members of the Correspondents’ Chapel deviated from issues and instead tagged journalists in the state as opposition party working against the governor.

She as well accused members of the fourth estate of the realm of under-reporting the Alia administration; a development that put journalists on collusion path with the board’s chief executive.