Kogiflame
Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ Special Delegates Conference session sitting in Kano , Thursday passed a new law to supervise the activities of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria.SWAN.
The special conference holding at Afficient event centre in Kano presided over by the national president of the union, Chris Isiguzo , when amending article 9 of the NUJ constitution resolve for an inclusion that a new clause that states that any SWAN election not supervised by NUJ henceforth is null and void.
Further more, there is a provision for a new clause inserted that states that the national president of SWAN should now be addressed as national chairman.
The session vehemently objected to the proposed draft law that proposed that SWAN should now occupy the status of beat association.
Our checks revealed that there might be a legal tussle in the offing.
Sources revealed that the resolution passed by the NUJ Special session is considered an infringement on the verdict of courts of competent jurisdiction passed on the issue.
However, keen observes opined that NUJ had formally written to CAC recommending that the marriage between it and SWAN be dissolved so that the action by NUJ would pave way for SWAN to be registered as a professional body.
“I ponder how NUJ that approved to part ways with SWAN by giving them a letter to go and register with CAC has suddenly turned back and now laying claims to SWAN been an affiliate of NUJ , with SWAN now being a professional body while NUJ is a trade union, which have no business together going by the present positions in the provisions of the law .” an observer stated.
