Comrade Chris Isiguzo said fake news has given media profession a bad name, Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

Isiguzo was reacting at the weekend over the publications in the social media online plattform that the two Channels television Journalists who anchored Gov Ortom’s interview in the sunrise morning show were arrested by the Department of State Security Service (DSS).

Comrade Isiguzo who met with the United Igbo Journalists Forum in Abuja explained that the online publications that the Chanels television Journalists were arrested was fake adding that they were only invited by the National Broadcasting Commission for questioning.

He said after the chat with NBC management, they were asked to go immediately at the intervention of the national secretariat led by him.

He urged the social media and some fifth columnist who have decided to destroy the media profession through fake news to desist from such act as the union is determined to raise the arm of the law against piovioters of fake news.

The president who advocated for better working conditions for journalists in the country also disclosed that media organisationsions who are owing journalists arrears of salaries without making genuine efforts to clear them will be picketed by the union as a last option.

He further stated that the union has secured payments of its members who were owed several months of salary arrears in some media houses.

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SGF recalled the contributions of the Nigerian media in the containment of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that journalists made sacrifices in filing reports day and night, particularly, at the onset of the pandemic in which press briefings were held by the then Presidential Task Force on daily basis.

“Their contributions led to the dissemination of accurate information to the citizenry through jingles, advertorials and various educational programmes on their platforms.

Mustapha assured media practitioners of the continued support of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 while urging practitioners to use their role as purveyors of news to build a strong and united country by adhering to the ethics of the profession through truthful and accurate reports.

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