NJWF condemns incessant threat to life of journalists

NJWF condemns incessant threat to life of journalists
A newly founded organisation, the Nigeria Journalists Wives Foundation (NJWF) has condemned the incessant threat to life of journalists in the country.
Speaking through its national –coordinator, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke, said that the foundation is concerned that despite the very poor conditions, journalists in the country face in carrying out their jobs as the fourth estate, the society has not realised the need to appreciate them.
She also called on the government and security agencies in the land to live up to their responsibility by taking such threats to journalists lives very seriously and ensure that it put a stop to it.
NJWF, further urged NUJ and its membership to come up with an empowerment plans for their wives and families like insurance.
“There is no level of insurance for the lives of journalists that would equal the risk they take on daily basis,” she declared.
Women, she said, must not be made to suffer unduly because and very often their breadwinners, which usually leave them and Nigerian Journalists wives with very huge tasks in keeping up with the family aspirations of having and raising educated children that would contribute to the society meaningfully.