Monday 21 December 2015

Global Editors Float Union of Journalist Patriot UK...Sets to Report News on Commonwealth Nations




  • Anchored on Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 of UDHR 1948
  • Stands on African Charter on Human & Peoples' Rights  2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12, 15, 22, 23, 25 & 26
  • AIM: 'As men of the Fourth Estate of the Realm to expose through Investigative Reportage pains, challenges, accomplishments of Commonwealth citizens and  Maladministration in Commonwealth Nations'
  • “Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the Freedom to Criticize and Oppose”-George Orwell
  • “Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written”-Alex Morritt
  • “When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and notHuman Rights Abuse”-Auliq Ice
  • “IF freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led,like sheep to the slaughter,” stated George Washington, first President ofUnited States of America, a great philosopher who lived 22nd February1732-14th December 1799.


Having taken a critical look at the various dehumanizing conditions, abuse, torture of Commonwealth citizens in several detention centers especially in the Queen's enclave and various violations of Rule of Law principles by United Kingdom Border Agency, UKBA in contrast to the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR Treaty 1948, African Charter on Human & Peoples' Rights Law, even while those detainees' appeal are still pending before some courts of competent jurisdiction; a group of journalists drawn from 54 members of the Commonwealth nations have come
together for posterity sake to re-write history by ensuring voice is given to the voiceless, hope is made available to the hopeless, vision is handed out to the visionless and life is accorded the traumatized, so that justice will be seen at the end of the day to have been done by the use of
the pen.



Precisely on 15th December 2015, these multiple-award wining Editors from various media outfits in Africa, Europe and United States of America expressed their rights to form a registered association in Britain called 'Union of Journalist Patriot' http://www.unionofjournalistpatriot.club/ by relying on Article 10 of  African Charter on Human & Peoples' Rights which states that: “Every Individual shall have the right to free association provided that he abides by the law. Subject to the obligation of solidarity provided for in Article 29, no one may be compelled to join an association.”



Union of Journalist Patriot website has been  ALIVE 100% since 15 December 2015 in UK, across the world, and the traffic to the news pages has been very inspiring going by the standards set by these highly revered media practitioners that cuts across Newspapers, Digital Media (Online), News

magazines (Hard news); Soft-sell (News journal) and Broadcast Media.


In a Press Statement signed by Union of Journalist Patriot's directorate, these acclaimed journalists whose identities are known only to every members of this association due to the importance, timely-investigation and sensitivity in undercover reportage are drawn from the following media houses : News Express (Nigeria's fast-growing online daily newspaper), YES International Magazine (Nigeria), Safari News UK, News Diary Online,ThisDay Newspapers (Nigeria), Africa Independent Television (AIT Nigeria), News Africa Now (South Africa); Herald Newspapers (Nigeria), National Enquirer Magazine(Nigeria) and Leadership Newspapers (Nigeria).



Others are: The ICON Magazine (Nigeria), PUNCH Newspapers (Nigeria), CKN News (Nigeria), New Telegraph Newspapers, The Nation Newspaper, African Examiner (USA), News of the People Magazine (Nigeria), Sahara Weekly Magazine (Nigeria), Global Excellence Magazine (Nigeria), Swift Reporters

(Nigeria),  Daily Times of Nigeria, TELL Magazine (Nigeria), NATIONAL Waves Magazine/Newspaper (Nigeria), Naija Standard Newspaper (Nigeria) and Asaba-Africa blogspot (Nigeria).


The Statement reads: “The unveiling of Union of Journalist Patriot is determined to serve as a check and gate-keeper on news dissemination regarding how Commonwealth citizens' rights are respected or flouted in foreign countries, mostly in Britain and well-detailed expose to be

written on any form of maladministration traceable to corruption and human rights abuses by leaders of those Commonwealth nations,” signed Samson Shoaga, Publicity Secretary.

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