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| A cross section of Journalists participants during the training |
By Salisu K Ismail
following a one-day training workshop organized by NITDA for Journalists representing various media outlets across the country in Jigawa State, The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has been commended for equipping the working journalists with the most needed and timely digital technical know-how on their reportages.
The Chairman, Jigawa State Correspondent Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists Comrade Muhammad Zangina Kura made this commendation in a statement made available to newsmen, Saturday, in Dutse, The Jigawa State Capital.
He said, "The training given to members of the Chapel and other selected journalists by the Agency on digital Journalism and Digital Facts Checking will enhance the professional skill of the practicing journalists in the state to meet up with the contemporary challenges posed by digital technology."
According to him journalists are confronted with dimensional challenges from the social media which serves as vehicles for the spread of fake news in the society.
"Such training will certainly enhance the capacity of our members to counter the menace of fake news in the society by authenticating the source of any information for proper public enlightenment", Comrade Kura added.
He declared that, "Today everyone has access to social media and can bombard public with all sort of fake and distorted news which only trained and professionals can understand it is a false information."
On the Participants, Mr Kura charged them to make good use of the knowledge and skills acquired from the training to enriched their daily news reportages.
Earlier, In her opening remark, The Head of Corporate Affairs and External Relations, NITDA, Hadiza Umar said the training was aimed at improving and providing the working journalists with all the needed skills on digital aspects to carryout their activities inline with the global digital terrain.
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