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| Prince Frank Ukonga and CONPAN Leaders @ the International Conference Centre ABUJA, Recently |
His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga grace the Inauguration of
CONPAN EXCO [Community Newspapers publishers Association of Nigeria] Edo state
@ NUJ HQ Benin city, as special guest of Honor; with CONPAN National President
Hon. Monday Ehiwere, NUJ Secretary Edo state Hon. Titus Akigbe, CONPAN Chairmen
from Delta state and the south south Region, CONPAN Stalwarts from Abuja &
all over the federation gathered to inaugurate the Edo state chapter of CONPAN
in Benin today the 14th of
June 2015.CONPAN is an association of community newspaper publishers of
Nigeria with over 5000 members publishing
more than 2000 titles of community newspapers on weekly/monthly basis in
Nigeria in all 36 States and 774 LGAs of the Nigerian federation ;as the grass
root Newspapers reaching out to the bulk
of over 250million Nigerians on weekly
basis.
Comrade Frank Akigbe emerged the Chairman of Edo state
CONPAN with 7 members EXCO charged with the responsibility of promoting and entrenching
the ideals of community newspapers publishing and readership in Edo state.
In his keynote address Prince frank Ukonga lauded the
dexterity of the National President of CONPAN in person of Hon. Monday Ehiwere
noting that “CONPAN is the best thing that ever happened to the field of mass
communication in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa”. That CONPAN With membership
across all the 36 stats and 774 LGAs of the Nigerian federation with members
publishing more than 800 titles of community newspapers on weekly basis is a
great polit economic and mass
communication union that has a bright future for the Nigerian federation,
crating employment, investing in the economy and contributing its quota to the GDP-gross
domestic product of Nigeria as well as educating, entertaining, communication
and bringing the colligation of more than 250 tribes of Nigeria to one united
family .
Furthermore Prince Ukonga admonished all the publishers as
social, cultural and educational praxis to dedicate their time to quality
service delivery to the electorate, to shun the habit of collecting brown envelopes
from clients or undertaking the so called special projects to launder the
images of some individuals in the society because this will impact negatively on
the professionalism and on the sales and circulation of their newspapers.
Prince Ukonga advised community newspaper publishers as the
grass root publishing category on which other National publishers and media
practitioners do often gauge the entropy of public interests in their reporting
and at times poach them; to be less partisan and cultivate the ethics of
balanced reporting.
Prince Ukonga appeal
to the federal, state and Local Governments in Nigeria to support community Newspapers
Publishing in Nigeria as they are the ones doing the real job in reaching out to
the majority of the Nigerian masses.
Prince Ukonga also appealed to advertisers to patronize the
community Newspapers as they are those that reach the grass root of the Nigerian
federation…for example products like cooa cola, pepsi cola, indomee, magi cubes,
milk, juices, telephones, MTN, GLO,- telecommunication companies etc that
really want to reach the grass root and double its sales and productivity
should turn to community newspapers. The so called national Newspapers hardly
reach the grass root and mostly the thinking of the masses is that those
newspapers are for the elite and they sell for prohibitive prices ill
affordable by the grass root masses, so this is a golden secret I have let out
to advertisers, product managers of companies that want to make high sales all
over the country should reevaluate their advert portfolios and patronize the
community newspapers and once you see your sale turn over begin to soar, you
would be overwhelmed.
Henry Ogbemudia
Edo/ South South Bureau chief- National Peoples News
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