The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nasarawa Publishing Company (NPC) Limited, the publishers of Nigerian Newsday and Nasara newspapers, Malam Abubakar M. B. Ibrahim, has called on the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), to remain active participants in the efforts to protect the rightd of women and children.

The NPC boss made the call last week in Lafia, the Nasarawa state capital, when a team led by the National President of NAWOJ, Fatimah Abdulkareem, paid a visit to the corporate headquarters of company.

Malam Ibrahim who commended the NAWOJ national leadership for its initiatives and programmes aimed at helping women and children in the country, thanked the NAWOJ members for finding it worthy to visit the company

He described the proposed NAWOJ workshop in the state on HIV/AIDS as timely; assuring that the NPC would continue to partner with the NAWOJ in bid to better the lives of women journalists in the country.

Responding, the NAWOJ President identified the role of the media as the most crucial towards achieving success in the global fight against the dreaded HIV/AIDS.

According to her, the media, which has remained a veritable tool for the spread of information and knowledge, "must step up its efforts, particularly on the issues of HIV/AIDS, as well as cancer, which have continued to threaten the existence of women and children".

Hajiya Abdulkareem, who said NAWOJ was in the Nasarawa State capital to step up its campaign against the spread of HIV/AIDS, used the forum to call on NPC to use its publications to embark on aggressive campaign to enlighten the public on the dangers of the dreaded disease.

The NAWOJ president was accompanied on the visit by the representatives of the association in Nasarawa, Benue, Plateau and Kaduna states as well as the Nasarawa State chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Alhaji Ibrahim Onawo.