The General Overseer, Promise Kingdom Ministry a.k.a Overflow Chapel, Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, Archbishop Godday Iboyi has called on Nigerians to support media practitioners in the country, adding that doing so would empower them to do more for societal growth and development.
Arcbishop Iboyi made the call at the celebration of the 22nd Annual Thanksgiving Service of his Church, where he was also honoured with an award as the Best Media Friendly Cleric in South-South Nigeria 2022, by Sapele Mirror Newspapers.
The General Overseer who also hosted Journalists to a larvished get-together at the end of the service, gave out food items to appreciate the media for their support to him and the ministry.
The cleric said he decided to celebrate Journalists from different media platforms because they have contributed in the propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and other programmes and activities of the church and society in general.
Archbishop Iboyi said this is his own way of saying thank you to the journalists whom he had worked with in the State.
While noting that Journalists have made so many eminent personalities in the State without being adequately appreciated, he solicited more positive cooperations as well as good working relationship them and journalists, just as he charged the media professionals to continue to contribute their quota passionately to societal development.
The items he doled out to the Journalists include goats, bags of rice, bunches of plantain, loaves of bread and tubers of yams.
In his response, the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu commended Archbishop Iboyi for the kind gesture.
Comrade Ikeogwu said Journalists have made so many politicians and other persons prominent in the society without being appreciated or remembered when they get to office.
He said, “You are not the only man of God in the State. But what you have done should be emulated by others. If other men of God do what you are doing, the Society will be a better place.”
He also assured Archbishop Iboyi of more robust relationship and coverage from Journalists in the State, just as he prayed God Almighty to elevate him more, grant him good health and joy unspeakable to enjoy his labour.
