8 August 2008
Lagos — President Umar Musa Yar Adua yesterday sent a high level delegation to commiserate with the family of the late Alhaji Babatunde Jose at their Victoria Island home in Lagos.
The delegation was led by the Minister of Information and Communications, Mr John Odey, who delivered the condolence message of the President.
In the message, President Yar'Adua described late Alhaji Jose's death as a monumental loss to the Nigerian journalists.
His message which was delivered to the widow of deceased read, "on behalf of my family, the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I write to commiserate with you and the entire Jose Family on the transition to greater glory of your dear husband, Alhaji Babatunde Jose."
"His life was epitomised by unmediated commitment to professional excellence, an unyielding sense of rectitude and personal integrity, and an enduring dedication to national growth and development through forthrightness, selfless service and abounding patriotism".
Among those in the delegation were Mr Segun Adeniyi, Special Adviser (Communi-cations) to the President and Alhaji Abubabakar Jijinwa, Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria
Meanwhile, a veteran journalist, Mr Jimoh Gbadamosi, in his condolence message, described late Babatunde Jose as an ëuncompromising journalistî. He regretted that his death robbed him of seeing through, the extraction of trade unionism from journalism and the Freedom of Information Bill for which the journalists must use for effeciency even as he praised his national and international reach.
"For example, when Alhaji Jose established the Daily Times Training Center in Journalism and wanted to open the school for operation in October 1974, he invited former director at the London National Council for Training of Journalists, Mr Alec Newman, who was himself a top British journalist to come for the opening in Lagos", he said.
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