Tunde Sanni
31 October 2009
Ibadan — Oyo State governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has charged media houses in the country to continue to promote national understanding as democratic ethos make gradually progress in the nation's history.
Akala in his goodwill address at the kick off the golden anniversary celebration ceremony of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Ibadan Network Centre, stressed the need for journalists to be above board in the discharge of their duties.
He reminded that the nation future depends largely on the reportage of the media and pleaded that the labour of heroes past should not be allowed to be in vain by ensuring the corporate entity of the country.
Earlier in his keynote address, Bauchi State Governor, Alhaji Isa Yuguda, blamed jobless youths and hoodlums for the recurrent crisis in the Northern part of the country, which he said had always being misconstrued as a confrontation between Christians and Muslims. The governor feared that the country was sitting on a keg of gun powder with the rate graduates were being produced yearly from the tertiary institutions without any hope of engaging them productively.
"We need peace. We need unity. We need patriotism and at the same time, we need political stability. Peace, unity, patriotism and political stability are the yardsticks that international investors use in determining whether they will bring their capital into a country or not.
"So, we must secure our nation. We must make our nation peaceful. All those elements that breed disunity, discomfort, crisis for us, we must wake up to fight them. Otherwise, capital will never find its way to Nigeria and the capital we have locally here, I am assuring you is not sufficient to develop a country as big as Nigeria".
The visiting Bauchi governor cautioned politicians against aspiring to office with "blood dripping fromtheir hands and emphasized the need for the country to redefine its political concept that dwelt on retrogressive tendencies, he described politics as a decent profession that should attract decent members of the society.When aspiring to be a politician, he said that he was determined to change the image of politics that was synonymous with thuggery, mischief, murder and every other evil.
The governor advised his colleagues to shun politics of bitterness and do-or-die, which he said was always having ripple effect on the socio-economic standing of the country.
In her address, the host Zonal Director, Mrs. Elizabeth Aina-Scott, applauded the vision of the founding fathers of the broadcasting station, which she said, has become 'one tree spreading from the West to the East, North and the South'.
She disclosed that the television station, despite its ups and downs, has started rebranding itself to meet up with the challenges of the new millennium, especially as related to technology development.
Aina-Scott maintained that the station had been re-branded with the installation of 10KW transmitter and revitalised programme contents that had kept the audience glued to the station.
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