SWAN Week: Mitchell Obi charges journalists to fight to defend the profession

By Adeyinka Akintunde, Lagos on July 28, 2016

The Winners Golden Bet/Lagos Sports Writers Association of Nigeria Week (SWAN) continued yesterday at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere Lagos with the football competitions.

Complete Sports overcame UNILAG FM 2-0, a match that witnessed a fighting between a UNILAG FM and a Complete Sports player. FRCN/VON only managed a 0-0 draw with Radio Nigeria, Goal.com overcame News Fan Zone with a solitary 1-0 win.

Medical checkups were also organised for journalists and other members of the sports community at the SWAN Secretariat. The medical professionals checked the sugar level and blood pressure of those that availed themselves.

At the end of the day, a seminar was held with the President of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Africa, Mr. Mitchell Obi. In his lecture titled “Ethics of Journalism”, Obi said that journalists today must be ready to “fight” to defend their profession. He said that journalists “have a battle to be independent in writing, in expression, against those who are after their selfish aims,” and that was why the AIPS, when formed in 1924 during the Olympic games in Paris, had their first meeting inside the boxing ring.

Obi stated: “Today’s Sports journalism is different. We have gone past the days of typewriter and telex machines. We are now in the digital age, jet age, and sadly, Ethical damage. Technology meant to help us has now become the most demanding, revolutionalising our way of working.”

The veteran sports journalist charged journalists at the seminar to be courageous, (in the face of the corruption that has eaten deep into the profession), and stand for the truth, be ready at all times to lead with an eye of tomorrow  and always at all times be ready to fight for what matters. He ended his lecture citing the Biblical Apostle Paul who said: “Finally  brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worth of praises dwell on these things.”

DAY TWO RESULTS

Complete Sports 2-0 UNILAG

VON (FRCN) 0-0 Radio Nigeria

Goal.Com 1-0 News Fan Zone

New Telegraph 1-0 NAN

TV Continental 0-0 The Sun

•Photo shows Mitchell Obi

Source Daily Sports

Posted July 28, 2016


 

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