ESUT, NUJ set to partner in Capacity Building for Journalists 

The Vice Chancellor, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Prof. Charles Eze says the institution will partner with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to retrain journalists in the state.
Eze disclosed this on Tuesday in Enugu when the leadership of the NUJ, Enugu State Council paid a courtesy visit on the management of the institution.
The vice chancellor said that the institution had a flourishing Mass Communication Department that could assist in improving the capacity of journalists in the state.
He urged the leadership of the union in the state to work out the modalities for such collaboration.
“Once the proposal is ready, I will present it to the management of the institution and once it receives the necessary approvals, we hit the ground running,” he said.
Eze said that the institution had recorded appreciable success in infrastructural development since it came on board on May 26, 2020.
He said that the current management of the institution had within the short period injected life into the system by facilitating the promotion of no fewer than 42 members of staff of the institution.
“These are people that have been stagnated over the years. We facilitated their promotion considering how such stagnation affected their morale,” he said.
Eze said that the management of the institution was not unmindful of the contribution of the media in advancing the course of the institution.
He appealed to the media to always portray the institution in good light.
Earlier, the Chairman of NUJ, Enugu State Council, Mr Rex Arum commended the management of the institution for the modest achievements it had recorded within the short period.
Arum appealed for collaboration between the state council of the NUJ and the institution in the training and retraining of journalists in the state.
He also appealed for the intervention of the Engineering and Architecture Department of the institution in remodeling the NUJ secretariat in Enugu. (NAN)