The Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN) has elected Mr. Anya Njoku as the new President to run the affairs of the association for the next three years.
In a keenly-contested election which held at the MARAN Press Centre in Apapa at the weekend, Njoku, who is Co-publisher of Snipper Magazine defeated Mr. Godfrey Bevbiere of Vanguard Newspapers and Mr. Francis Ezem of National Mirror Newspaper to emerge winner.
Other members of the new executive are: Bayo Bernard of the Source Magazine as Vice President, Dapo Olawuni Assistant Editor Shipping Position Daily as Secretary General, Samson Echenim of the Vanguard Newspapers as Assistant Secretary.
Other are: Mrs Esther Hassan of PM News as Treasurer and Oluyinka Onigbinde of Newsdirect Newspaper as Public Relations Officer.
In his victory speech shortly after the election, Njoku assured that MARAN is set to restore its glory. He appealed to all members to lend their support to the new executives to take the association to greater heights.
He assured members to get ready for myriad of events and programmes that would further improve them in the areas of deeper knowledge of the maritime industry, capacity development and socio-economic welfare.
Njoku also solicited the support of maritime industry stakeholders, even as he assured them of MARAN continuing support and robust reportage of their activities.
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