A Port Harcourt based virtual medium, Kristina Reports says it will continue to partner organizations that seek to empower women to achieve their utmost potentials and contribute maximally to societal development.

Head of Legislative Desk at Kristina Reports, Kingba Jacks said this on Tuesday, February 18, 2021 when a Chairmanship aspirant for the Triennial Delegates Conference and Elections of the National Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Susan Serekara-Nwikhana, and members of her campaign team visited Kristina Reports head office in Port Harcourt.

“We have a significant segment of our staff as women and we are empowering them with opportunities to grow. The third most powerful person in Kristina Reports is a woman and she can make big decisions that our management would naturally just oblige.”

“Partnering with organizations and groups that promote issues affecting women is our thing and we hope to work with you to amplify the voices of women in the society; nobody can say it for women more than women and we want to be there for the feminine folk.”

Jacks reiterated that the medium was positively disposed to the emergence of a leadership for NAWOJ that would take women journalists to the next level where they can contribute to making society a better place, assuring that the NAWOJ component of Kristina Reports would deliberate and decide on the best candidate to support.   

Earlier, the NAWOJ Chairmanship aspirant, Susan Serekara-Nwikhana, who used the occasion to acquaint the Kristina Reports Chapel and the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Kristina Reports, Godswill Jumbo, of her aspiration, stating that her desire was to help expand the scope of opportunities available to women journalists and galvanize them into a strong force to advance the cause of women.   

“We are always on the field and so, we share the pains and plight of other journalists on the field. I monitor NUJ and NAWOJ 24 hours daily to see if there’s any challenge from the members and ensure information and job opportunities are made known through these platforms not because of my connections, but because of the heart to carry everyone along.”

“If given the opportunity to be your chairperson, I promise to run an all-inclusive executive where everyone will have a voice and share ideas on the best possible ways to lead NAWOJ to the next level.”

She further explained that her leadership style would be predicated on sustaining the legacy of past leaders of the association, stating that these include developing infrastructure that would scale up the capacity of women journalists, adding that social impact programmes and projects would also be given pride of place under her administration.  

“I intend to continue where the past leadership left the flag of the association by recovery of the land given us by the Oba of Ogbaland, His Eminence, Eze Chukwumela Nnamdi Obi II, during the reign of Madam Enale Zua as NAWOJ Chairperson.”

“As a journalist with good knowledge of ICT, it is my desire that NAWOJ has an Information and Communication Technology Center where our members would acquire ICT knowledge and become digital compliant in the area of gathering and disseminating information. The land when recovered could therefore be used to build such an ICT.”

In her speech, Vice Chairmanship aspirant in the NAWOJ 2021 elections, Daba Benebo said she hopes to work closely with Serekara-Nwikhana to raise the bar of engagements with women journalists, saying that building the capacity of women journalists was key to deepening the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and NAWOJ in terms of contributing to societal development.  

On her part, Campaign Manager of the Susan Serekara-Nwikhana Campaign Team, Anita Ogonna, who described herself as “gender activist”, said the core focus of the team was to open NAWOJ to inculcate more buy-ins from women journalists in the state, stressing that the input of every member of the association was critical and as such have to be accommodated.

The NAWOJ Triennial Delegates Conference and Elections holds on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at the NUJ State Secretariat, the Ernest Ikoli Press Centre, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.    

Kristina Reports, which has nearly 50% female staff, prides itself in promoting issues that place women on the front-burner, engaging with relevant stakeholders in the course of advancing solutions to challenges that negatively impact women.