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A lawmaker, who sponsored the bill, said the newspaper corporation has become moribund, economically unviable and no longer serves the purposes for which it was established.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State chapter, Dr. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, has berated Governor Chukwuma Soludo-led Anambra State government for ‘permanently shutting down’ an old state-owned newspaper outfit - Anambra Printing Corporation, publishers of National Light Newspapers. Odogwu in a statement on Tuesday described the permanent closure of the corporation with about 100 staff members as “injustice”.