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The Oyo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Tuesday warned members of the public to stop dealing with the immediate past Chairman of the union in the state, Adewunmi Faniran who is still parading himself as the chairman of the union in the state. NUJ said there is need to sensitise the public on the development in the union because the radio station where the former Chairman works, FRCN (Radio Nigeria), has been fouling the air, misrepresenting and peddling lies with fake news to mislead members of the public about the status of Faniran who was voted out of office, seven months ago. The NUJ calls on the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), the Director General of the FRCN, Mr. Mansur Liman, the Zonal Director of the station, Mr. Mohammed Bello, the President of the NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo, the Minister of the Ministry of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, to rein in, on the station before they cause fur

The Area commander of the Oyo State Police Command, Iyaganku Area Command, ACP Sunday Oke on Monday waded into the non-handling over Union’s properties in custody of immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Adewumi Faniran especially the account cheque books domiciled in three banks in the State. The current executive led by Ademola Babalola had last Thursday raised the alarm over the suffering of some lecturers at the International Institute of Journalism (IIJ), Ibadan campus who were been deprived of their salaries since January this year by Faniran who refused the change of signatory form, to allow the incumbent sign allowances of the affected tutors.   The tutors at IIJ mostly veteran journalists had vide a letter dated July 9th, 2020 to Babalola and the Area Commander wrote on behalf of the resource persons at IIJ on prolonged delay in payment of their salaries by former NUJ chairman, Adewumi Faniran. The letter signed by the du

Late broadcaster and comedian, Gbenga Adeboye has been described as the trail blazer in the industry who opened windows of career opportunities for others within and outside Nigeria. This submission was given on Tuesday by a veteran broadcaster, Aare Olalomi Amole whose career has spanned over 40 years, while featuring of the weekly Parrot Xtra Hour on Radio anchored by Olayinka Agboola and aired on Space 90.1fm in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The Ibadan-based on-air-personality also lamented that the death of Adeboye was a huge loss to the Nigerian broadcasting and entertainment communities because of his versatility. Speaking further during the radio show, the man popularly called ‘Aare Mekunu’ by his teeming fans submitted “You see, I can never forget the day Gbenga Adeboye pleasantly surprised me. I can recollect that he actually invited me to LTV 8 in Ikeja, Lagos where he was marking his 20th anniversary as a broadcaster. “On that day, he had, as part of the pr