By: Sani Gazas, Damaturu
The State commissioner for Information and Home Affairs Alhaji Mohammed Lamin, has said Yobe State will provide an enabling atmosphere for a boundless success of both government and media in the state.
He stated this when he received members of Yobe Publishers Forum in his office, on Thursday, the 30, December,2021.
Lamin assured members of the forum of inclusion publicizing government programmes and activities whenever arise. Noted that the Yobe Publishers Forum have the advantage of having first hand knowledge of the Yobe environment as well as government businesses and workings, further urging members of the forum to be authoritative in their reportage.
Lamin added that Yobe government is making necessary effort at digitizing the state owned electronic media, also stressing that emphasis would be placed on training and retraining of journalists in the state by the will of Allah.
While, he also, pledged to attend to problems confronting the forum in the discharge of their duties respectively.
Earlier in his remarks, chairman, Yobe Publishers Forum, Alhaji Ibrahim Dacia,
requested for inclusion of the Publishers Forum in covering activities of MDAs in the state.
Alhaji Ibrahim enumerated problems of the forum thus; non access to advertisement from MDAs, consideration for invitation to cover government functions among others.