The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, OSBC Chapel’s Pen-Week will be formally declared open tomorrow, Monday by the Director General/ Permanent Secretary of the media Conglomerate, Mrs Jolaade Igbaroola, at the Open Air Studio, Ile Awiye, Oke Baale, Osogbo.
A statement by the organizing committee indicates that, the Opening Ceremony would be followed by Free Medical Check-up and Health Talk, as powered by Pathway Hospital, Akede Area, Osogbo; where over one hundred and fifty members of staff of OSBC Conglomerate, Youth Corps members and student interns, are scheduled to benefit from.
The grand finale event of the Pen Week holds on Thursday, where some selected icons in the society would be presented with the OSBC NUJ Award of Excellence. This is alongside the celebration of our former Chairmen, tagged Ancestors Day, during which there would be an Independence Anniversary Lecture, with the topic “Sixty Four Years Of Struggling After Freedom: Which Way Nigeria?”
The Guest Lecturer is Prof Wasiu Oyedokun-Ali, from the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State; while Professional Awards would also be presented to some of Chapel’s members, who have excelled in their outputs.
The statement adds that on Friday, a Jumat Service will come up at the NACOMYO School Jumat Mosque, Ayetoro, Osogbo, as the last event on the line-up of activities for the week. It is sponsored by the Chairman, Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC, Mr Hashim Abioye (Esq), who will also host NUJ OSBC Chapel’s members, friends and well-wishers to a grand reception, immediately after the Jumat Service.
