Can anyone help me resolve this named failure report

[Odimegwu David]

named error report
named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS) Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:17:05 +0100; 13min ago Process: 1660 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -u named $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 1586 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/named.service
The messages from /var/log/messages is thus:
Sep 11 20:17:05  named: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Sep 11 20:17:05  named: isc_stdio_open 'data/named.run' failed: permission denied
Sep 11 20:17:05  named: configuring logging: permission denied
Sep 11 20:17:05  named: loading configuration: permission denied
Sep 11 20:17:05  named: exiting (due to fatal error) 
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