Former NUJ chairman tasks media owners, Government on commensurate salaries to Practitioners.

Kogiflame
The Executive Director, Journalist Initiative, Alhaji Ibrahim Isa-Amoka, has called on Media owners in the country, from both the private and government to always respect Journalists by paying them reasonable salary that is commensurate to their job.
Isa-Amoka warned them to stop using media practitioners as mere labourers, but they should rather treat them as professionals in their area of callings.
The call was made by the Executive Director, Amoka Journalist Initiative, an NGO that caters for the interest of Journalists worldwide.
The one time NUJ Chairman, Kogi State Council who was speaking during the World Press Day in Lokoja, used the occasion to call on the National body of NUJ to remove the Union from NLC to a more professional entity like NMA,NBA,ASUU among others.
He noted that this will make the Union to make more progress than her present state where it was lumped with unprofessional bodies
He commended Nigeria Journalists for still coming out as one of the best in the world despite her not too good environment of operation.