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The new Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Buki Ponle, on Wednesday pledged to revive the legacies for which the Agency is known in the media landscape.
Ponle gave the commitment during his inaugural meeting with staff in the Lagos office.
He said that he would work vigorously to get a better condition of service for workers, noting that the one currently being implemented bygovernment was due for review.
Ponle, a pioneering staff of the agency before retiring on Sept. 1, 2013, urged workers to renew their commitment to the agency and work toward actualising its vision for a better NAN.
The managing director commended his predecessors, especially late Mrs Oluremi Oyo, for giving their best, saying he would consolidate on their achievements.
All the unfinished lofty ideasof late Mrs Oyo, a former MD of the agency, would be actualised, he said.
He also assured workers of prompt payment of all their allowances.
All benefits accruable toworkers will get to them under my watch, he assured.
Ponle further assured that he would give priority to the improvement of work environment and provision ofnecessary tools for staff to operate optimally.
He said he would make training and retraining of the workforce, top on his agenda in order to build the capacity of workers and get more value.
He described acts of indiscipline as antithetical to progress and urged workers to shun it.
The managing director said assessment and promotion of workers would be purely on merit under his watch.
Also speaking, actingHeadof NAN, Lagos Operations, Mr Silas Nwoha, commended the managing director for articulating his vision and sharing it with workers.
He said Ponle was a thorough-bred professional, who did his best for the agency while in service.
Nwoha said Ponles robust engagement with workers had shown thathe had come to reposition the agency.
He urged workers to key into his vision for NAN and do all they could to promote it,
Nwoha also called for prayersfor Ponle to enable himachieve all his plans for the agency.
Source: NAN News