From Yakubu Mustapha Minna
The Secretary to the Niger State Government (SSG), Alhaji Abubakar Usman has said that information dissemination would be given the required priority attention by the present administration.
Alhaji Usman disclosed this when he received the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Mrs. Hadiza Mohammed Shiru and Heads of Parastatals and Agencies of the Ministry in his Office.
According to him, this is crucial considering the critical role of information, mobilization and enlightenment in the success of the Government’s programmes and policies,
Alhaji Usman pointed out that the present administration led by Governor Mohammed Umar Bago is publicity conscious; hence the need for the Government to equip and rejuvenate all the State-owned media outfits for optimum productivity in information dissemination.
The SSG further revealed that the present administration would reintroduce Jama’a Forum an important platform for citizens’ participation and engagement in the development of the State.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Strategy, Mrs. Hadiza Mohammed Shiru told the SSG that the Ministry and its Agencies are responsible for tracking activities of the Government and disseminating such timely information to the public.
Shiru decried the present state of the obsolete equipment and dilapidated structures of all the State-owned media outfits and called for Government’s urgent attention to salvage the outfits from imminent collapse.
