Training and retraining of media practitioners that will function in all aspects of mass media is the only way sanity will be brought to the media profession in Nigeria.
The Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye who stated this in Lagos during the sixth convocation and 50th-anniversary ceremony of the school said that the media profession has been invaded with quacks and needs well-trained professionals that will fill the gap.
Mr. Adefaye said that NIJ has continued to produce well-trained professionals who will change the face of journalism practice and skillfully fill the critical media space.
According to him, a total of 922 (nine hundred and twenty two) students graduated with National and Higher Diploma in Mass Communication and post graduate diploma in journalism from the 2018 to 2021 academic session..
Source: Voice of Nigeria