NUJ seeks improved welfare for journalists

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Tuesday described as criminal and callous, a situation whereby certain media houses continually owe its members across the country, several months of unpaid salaries. Mr Rotimi Ojomoyela, Chairman of NUJ in Ekiti, made this known in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, while featuring on a programme coordinated by Fresh FM, a popular radio station owned by ace musician, Yinka Ayefele, that many journalists in both radio and newspapers are currently being owed between five-one year salary or more. According to him, owing journalists unpaid salary without any immediate plans to pay up, ordinarily exposed members to series of temptations. “It is only in Nigeria that you find journalists not being paid what is due to them, as and when necessary. “Unfortunately, when things like this are done, the danger is that such journalists now become vulnerable to temptations, because they, like others, also have children, parents and other loved ones to care about,” he said.