2nd September, 2016
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) is set to introduce a new portal for photographs that would be beneficial to the media industry in the country and the world at large.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive of NAN, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, made this known when the NUJ President, Mr. Waheed Odusile, paid him a courtesy visit in his office on Friday in Abuja.
“We are trying to start a new NAN portal basically for photos. As of now, we have been sending photographs via email.
“We want our subscribers to come to the portal and take photographs themselves and not we sending to them.
“We believe that we can serve photographs just like our news to the entire world, not just the only subscribers we have within Nigeria and we have also introduced another website that is just three weeks old.
“We also want to set up a video portal because that is the future of journalism, not the lengthy stories that we write.”
Onanuga said that soon, stories would be told via video, adding that the agency would strive to achieve this in the next five years.
He noted that a social medium such as Facebook was offering publishers around the world five-figure sum in dollars to provide it with video.
He said that NAN would key into a lot of packages that would make the agency more efficient and dependable by all media houses.
“We are trying to do a lot of things in NAN and we are not resting because we are going to do much better for our subscribers, our workers and the country.
“They are all going to achieve more through encouragement and commitment. I have seen some of the flaws as a consumer.
“I want to see how I can contribute my expertise in taking News Agency of Nigeria to another level,’’ Onanuga said.