{"id":7200,"date":"2025-01-15T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:38:40","slug":"badagry-chambers-boss-hails-maran-urges-association-to-maintain-objective-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2025\/01\/15\/badagry-chambers-boss-hails-maran-urges-association-to-maintain-objective-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Badagry Chambers Boss Hails MARAN, Urges Association to Maintain Objective Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     &#8230; We Want To Be Deliberate In Our Activities This Year &#8211; MARAN President <\/p>\n<p>President of the Badagry Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines &#038; Agriculture, Retired Deputy Comptroller of Customs, DC Yahaya Idris, has hailed the consistency of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) in objective reporting of the Maritime Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Idris who had an interactive session with the executive members of the association over the weekend during the it&#8217;s retreat, said &#8220;MARAN is doing a marvellous job criticising constructively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, everybody knows where MARAN belongs and appreciates the job it is doing.<\/p>\n<p>The Retired Deputy Comptroller described MARAN as a force to reckon with.<\/p>\n<p>He urged its members to toe the path of &#8216;just&#8217; reporting and avoid fake news which he said could drag the association back.<\/p>\n<p>His words: &#8220;I won&#8217;t talk from the angle of maybe anybody should favour you. I won&#8217;t say Customs should do this for you, Immigration should do this for you. Your work is there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MARAN has been doing a marvellous job criticising constructively. So everybody will know where you belong.I know so many people are appreciating your job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what I will want you to do is to continue consistently on what you are doing. Like you have been doing, continue with it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody needs to do this or that for you. You have already established yourself as a force to be reckoned with. Report just; when you (any of your members) write fake news against somebody and it is known you&#8217;re dragging the association back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his part, the President of MARAN, Mr. Godfrey Bivbere, thanked God for His grace that brought through in all its activities of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In this 2025, he stressed that MARAN will be deliberate in all its activities of the year, stating that a lot lie ahead of the Association.<\/p>\n<p>Bivbere with a loaded plan for the foremost maritime media beat association, reiterated that he is committed to repositioning MARAN with a view to take it to heights it had never attained in the past.<\/p>\n<p>He sought the united support of the executives and all members to make this dream a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; We Want To Be Deliberate In Our Activities This Year &#8211; MARAN President President of the Badagry Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines &#038; Agriculture, Retired Deputy Comptroller of Customs, DC Yahaya Idris, has hailed the consistency of the Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) in objective reporting of the Maritime Industry. 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