The Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kwara State Chapter, have suspended relationship with the state council with speedy impact.
The chapel issued a communiqué following a decision reached on the finish of its March congress held on the chapel secretariat the place members described the choice as a mandatory measure to guard their integrity and that of the chapel management.
The communiqué, collectively signed by the chairman and secretary, Biola Azeez and Mosunmola Ayobami respectively, stated the congress additionally resolved to boycott all press conferences and media-related actions organised by the state council till additional discover.
The communiqué emphasised that the choice was additionally taken “primarily based on the stand of the state council of the NUJ to not acknowledge management of the correspondents’ chapel after a constitutional and broadly accepted chapel election of November 1, 2025 and inauguration of the chapel exco.”
The communiqué, which recalled that a number of efforts had been made to resolve the lingering points surrounding the election of the brand new executives of the correspondents’ chapel, listed the efforts to incorporate intervention of the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, senior particular adviser and counsellor to the governor, the nationwide management of the NUJ, and different well-meaning people, saying: “all that yielded no optimistic end result”.
In the meantime, the chapel has inaugurated a Information Keg committee mandated to organise common engagements with newsmakers and generate editorial content material for the chapel and its members.
Members of the committee together with: Ibrahim Alege of The TvC (Chairman), Deacon Demola Akinyemi (Vanguard Newspaper), Mallam Garba Abdulhakeem (Channels TV), Hameed Shittu (Thisday Newspaper), and Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus of the Information Company of Nigeria.
It additionally inaugurated the the 2026 press week committee charged to organise a profitable occasion.
They embody Mallam Garba Abdulhakeem, Balogun Arisekola (African Tradition Tv, Ibrahim Alege and Nicholas Uwerunonye of the Impartial Newspaper.