The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has barred its members in Kogi State from cover­ing the activities of the state chapter of the Nige­ria Medical Association (NMA) until further no­tice.
The NUJ in a statement in Lokoja on Tuesday said it took the decision so as to protect the integrity of the profession of journal­ism and save journalists in the state from unwar­ranted attacks.

The statement was signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the state council of the NUJ, Alhaji Adeiza Momoh Jimoh and Mr Ademu Seidu, respec­tively.

They expressed disap­pointed that an associa­tion of the status of NMA could deny a statement is­sued and signed on its be­half by its state chairman, Dr Kabiru Zubair.

Zubair had on May 3, while commenting on the state’s COVID-free status, expressed reservations about the inability of the state government to car­ry out tests on suspected patients.

“Because of this high level of suspicion, doc­tors prefer to rule out COVID-19 in patients they considered as high risk before proceeding to man­age them for their clinical conditions.