Controversy Trails Delta Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan's Sponsorship Of Journalists To London Training, As NUJ Chairman Faces Impeachment

Controversy has continued to trail Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s alleged N250 million sponsorship of 16 private-sector journalists to London for a training on "Investigative Joirnalism" which has been described as a jamboree.

 This comes as a crisis is currently brewing in the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), which could lead to the removal of its Chairman, Mr Norbert Chiazor, over the selection of the reporters for the London training.

 Members of the NUJ in the state have condemned in strong terms the involvement of Mr. Chiazor, describing it as a sell-out, clandestine and compromise, stressing that the “corrupt” manner he led the selected private journalists to the jamboree said to be holding at the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London is an impeachable offence.

 Investigations show that the state government in its bid to buy the media, hiding under its human capital development agenda, allegedly approved a whooping N250 million for the training of the 16 journalists in London for the second time.

 Last year, the council chairman had risked impeachment following his involvement in controversial and corrupt circumstances with the state government to take 12 journalists in state for a similar jamboree at the Reuters/Thompson Foundation in London, United Kingdom.