 Governments at all levels have been urged to give more support and funding to the media industry in the country. A professor of science education at the University of Ilaurine, Moolikat Ahmad, made the call during the annual memorial lecture of late Professor Sheh-Hujimo in the Ilaurine-Dakwara State Capital. The theme of the lecture is education as a vehicle for socio-economic development, the role of the media. Professor Moolikat Ahmad, who was the guest lecturer at the event while urging teachers, parents and everyone to go back to the drawing board, maintained that promoting collaboration between the education sector and media would have greater impact in fostering socio-economic development but also added that there was need for government to give more support and funding to the media industry in the country. The funding itself, the government should try and give normal funding. And I said incentive is very, very important. There are basic incentives that it should give the media. You see, denying people their regular salaries is wrong. It is wrong. Apart from regular salaries, the other ones who are there, they should pay them on time. If Nigeria is saying it's giving us 10% now, you can see the rate at which things are being sold in Nigeria, the increase in price. Can you compare the price we had in the last 10 years with the price today? It's all comparable. So Nigeria has a government, should try and provide basic amenities for these houses to enable them to perform. Similarly, the former Vice Chancellor University of Elorraine, Professor Abdul Ghaniyu Ambali, also stressed the need for media personnel to be well insured as they go through a lot of risk in discharging their duties. You see media going to cover fire outbreaks and other land lightning events. I think we need to insure them, because these are people that are well educated, that have families, and we want to see them tomorrow. And in so doing, we have to guarantee they are clean. So I think one of those things that people in both states, federal, and of course, even the local government, because the local government will have media units. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.