{"id":430924,"date":"2011-05-26T23:05:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:05:30","slug":"npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/","title":{"rendered":"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

By DOTUN IBIWOYE
LAGOS \u2014 NEWSPAPERS Proprietors\u2019 Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, elected publisher of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, as its president at the end of its Annual General Meeting, yesterday.<\/p>\n

Other officials elected at the meeting are: Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, Deputy President; Ms Comfort Obi, General Secretary; Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, Assistant General Secretary; Mrs. Maiden Ibru, Treasurer; and Mr. Frank Aigbogun, Publicity Secretary.<\/p>\n

Other members of the executive are Mallam Ismaila Isa, Mr. Sam Amuka, ex-officio, Mr. Ray Ekpu, ex- officio, and Mrs. Nwadiuto Iheakanwa, ex-officio.<\/p>\n

In a communique issued at the end of the AGM, the association hailed the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill by the National Assembly, noting that it was a robust support for free speech and the public\u2019s right to know.<\/p>\n

It urged President Jonathan to endorse the bill, ahead of his inauguration as a show of his government\u2019s commitment to the fight against corruption and impunity in the country.<\/p>\n

Free flow of information<\/p>\n

The association commended the National Assembly for paving the way for Nigeria\u2019s entry into the club of democratic countries that cherish the free flow of information in order to improve transparency and good governance.<\/p>\n

In his valedictory statement, NPAN\u2019s outgoing President and retiring Chairman of The Punch Newspapers, Chief Ajibola Ogunshola, sketched the challenges facing the Association and urged members to rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n

The Association gave him a standing ovation for his leadership.<\/p>\n

The new President, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, thanked the members for electing him and promised to continue the fight to entrench free speech, sound journalism and fashion a new road map for the association to place the news media at the cutting edge of new digital age.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Go here to see the original:
\nNPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By DOTUN IBIWOYE LAGOS \u2014 NEWSPAPERS Proprietors\u2019 Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, elected publisher of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, as its president at the end of its Annual General Meeting, yesterday. Other officials elected at the meeting are: Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, Deputy President; Ms Comfort Obi, General Secretary; Mr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nNPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By DOTUN IBIWOYE LAGOS \u2014 NEWSPAPERS Proprietors\u2019 Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, elected publisher of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, as its president at the end of its Annual General Meeting, yesterday. Other officials elected at the meeting are: Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, Deputy President; Ms Comfort Obi, General Secretary; Mr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-26T23:05:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/\"},\"wordCount\":310,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/\",\"name\":\"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-26T23:05:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"By DOTUN IBIWOYE LAGOS \u2014 NEWSPAPERS Proprietors\u2019 Association of Nigeria, NPAN, yesterday, elected publisher of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, as its president at the end of its Annual General Meeting, yesterday. Other officials elected at the meeting are: Mallam Kabiru Yusuf, Deputy President; Ms Comfort Obi, General Secretary; Mr","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President","datePublished":"2011-05-26T23:05:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/"},"wordCount":310,"commentCount":0,"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/","name":"NPAN names Nduka Obaigbena President - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-05-26T23:05:30+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/npan-names-nduka-obaigbena-president\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}