By EZEKIEL DONTINNA
THE Central Planning Committee of Plateau Publishing Corporation (PPC), Re-union meeting of both old and present staff, is set to organize a special meeting to proffer ways of bringing back the past glory of THE NIGERIA STANDARD newspaper stables.
The Chairman, Central planning committee of the Re-Union meeting, Mr. Mathew Kuju, the publisher of the Eggonnews Lafia, disclosed this Friday, while on a courtesy visit to the management of PPC, the publishers of THE NIGERIA STANDARD and SUNDAY STANDARD newspapers.
While congratulating the newly appointed General Manager of PPC, Sir Boniface Gwotbit, the Chairman said, they were in his office to intimate the management on their plans to re-unite the old and present staff of the organization and celebrate what they have gained from the institution.
He added that, PPC has trained so many great people across the country and was doing well in their different fields of endeavour, hence the need for them to re-unite and give back to the organization.
On his part, the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Hon. Dogo Shammah said, they were what they are today because of the training they received from the organization and assured that, the three of them who are presently commissioners in Plateau, Taraba and Nasarawa States would do everything humanly possible to support the organization.
Responding, the General Manager of PPC, Sir Boniface Gwotbit commended the committee for their wonderful initiative and appealed to the old staff of PPC to contribute toward bringing back those wonderful columns the paper was known for so as to help bring back the past glory of newspaper.
He then used the occasion to thank Governor Simon Bako Lalong for turning his development searchlight on the organization and promised to commercialize products of PPC to help enhance revenue generation to government through printing of quality newspapers and cactus exercise book that was the pride of the organization.
The GM later took the committee round to see for themselves the newly installed City Press machine and the Belometic machine that prints cactus exercise books.
However, the state chairman of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Paul Jatau, later took them to the headquarters of NUJ which is under renovation courtesy Governor Simon Bako Lalong.
