Deputy President, Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE), Hajiya Aishatu Sule, has counseled women journalists to consider their integrity as sacrosanct, just as she reaffirmed the role of women in determining the nation’s political fate.
Delivering a paper entitled: “The Role of Women in the Development of the Society” organised by the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Zone A, she said no political dispensation could ever reach fruition without women playing a spectacular role, adding that as professionals, women journalists should consider fairness and objectivity as paramount.”
She said: “In times of electioneering campaign every politician considered the women folk as important knowing that with our numerical strength we can do and undo. We should be fully guided by our role in determining the political future of the country. We have no reason to shirk this role.”
She said for ages women were used dumped and discarded on the altar of primordial considerations and that with credible political choice, women would never be marginalised politically.
On the persistent cases of rape and drug abuse amongst women, Hajiya Sule said there was the need for a pro-active role on the part of women journalists to strive to enlighten and educate their women folk on the danger of such a dubious practice, adding that rape and drug abuse were twin evils permeating the society.
In his welcome address, the chairman, Nigeria Union of journalists (NUJ), Kano state council, Comrade Abduljalal Haruna, said women journalists in the state had really lived up to their billing professionally, adding that with capacity building women journalists would greatly assist in projecting a good image for the nation.
