By Ajuma Edwina Ogiri
Abuja
Director, Special Duties, National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Abubakar Jimoh, has said information dissemination was a key element for national growth and development.
He stated this at the launch of a magazine, Presidential Diary magazine, yesterday in Abuja, to project the Change Mantra of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Jimoh, who is the Initiator and Editorial Adviser of the magazine, said “change can only begin with you and I as a result of information dissemination.
” According to him, the publication of the magazine was borne out of his civic responsibility to manage information between the government and the people.
He said: “I have identified a yearning information gap between the government and the citizenry, and to that extent the presidential Diary Magazine came as a deliberate eff ort to breach that gap.
“We believe in this administration, and also believe that the task of informing, educating and sensitising Nigerians cannot be left only for government agencies and their spokesmen.
“So, I decided to assemble a hub of seasoned journalists together, to assist me in realising this mission of breaching the gap.
Government is doing so much, yet it is not reported.
” He added that the magazine officially came on board in 2015, months after the inauguration of this administration.
Launching the magazine, the First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari, who was represented by the wife of the vice-president, Dolapo Osinbajo, commended journalists in the country for their hard work.
She said: “I commend all journalists for their hard work.
It is easy to hear something and benefit from it, but hard to put it down in writing, in a way that other people will understand and learn from it.
“To choose to have a presidential diary, goes farther to helping people know what your heart is, because so much work is done that is not known of.
“I pray you will be able to tell people what is going on in the condors of power, where most of them have no opportunity to reach.”
