The Taraba state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Saturday, urged the federal government to provide low-cost housing estates to practising journalists across the country.
In a communiqué issued at the end of its quarterly congress meeting held at the Press Centre, Jalingo and signed by its drafting committee chairman, Tanko Kaura, the congress said media practitioners were facing accommodation challenge across the country and hence the need to tackle the problem head-on.
According to the communiqué, to tackle the high rate of insecurity across the state and the nation at large, Taraba state government should put up measures aimed at protecting the lives and property of the people of the state.
The NUJ also urged the state government to provide trackers to security agents to enable them track down the activities of criminal elements terrorising the lives of innocent citizens in the state.
The communiqué also recommended the implementation of a welfare scheme for members of the union and appealed to the state government to include media workers in the COVID-19 allowances since they are in the fore-front of mitigating the spread of the virus.
