Bring South East to inclusion, Editors charge FG

The Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, has charged the Federal government to make concerted efforts to bring the south east zone to inclusion in the affairs of Nigeria.

Speaking at the 2025 Biennial National Convention of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, holding in Enugu, the Chairman of the convention and Chairman of Channels Television, Dr John Momoh noted that the south east, particularly Enugu carries the scares of history.

The history, Momoh said is the Biafra story which he noted is still being carried down because of exclusion and pain.

"We must bring them to inclusion as a national healing," Momoh charged.

Speaking on the theme of the conference, "Building a Secured and Cohesive Nigeria: The role of Dialogue, Inclusion and the Media," Momoh said that there can be no security without justice.

"So what is our role as media officers? We shape opinions and and it's a power that comes with responsibility. Let us not only report conflicts, but let's be bridge builders of national conscience," Momoh said.

Veteran journalist and Former Governor of Ogun state, Aremu Segun Oshoba said that Nigeria Editors are among the bests, recalling that as a young person, insecurity even at a very bare level was highly challenged among the citizens themselves irrespective of security agents.

He proposed neighborhood and state policing, as methods for decentralization of the Nigeria security architecture to make the country great again.

Another veteran journalist and Former Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Chief Onyeka Ugochukwu asked journalists to stick to their two primary functions of speaking for the voiceless and holding government accountable.

President of NGE and Editor of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Eze Anaba noted that insecurity with high cases of insurgency, kidnapping have regrettably became subjects of discourse everywhere in Nigeria, but that with such cases, it was time for introspection by the media.

"Will the media have done more or are we guilty of amplifying fear, how can we contribute. Can we rise to the responsibility of inclusion, how can we contribute to a safer Nigeria," Anaba presented as topics for the conference.