UIRightBarButtonItem setting it's button function. What am I doing wrong?

Question

I have the following implemented:

UIImage *rightimage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"notification-new.png"];
UIBarButtonItem *rightbutton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:rightimage style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:@selector(goNotificationNow)];
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightbutton ;
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

Basically, I want the button to push to another ViewController when it is pressed, so I set "goNotificationNow" as :

- (void)goNotificationNow
{NotificationsViewController *ok = [[NotificationsViewController alloc]init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:ok animated:YES];
}

Now the button can be pressed but it does not do anything. I must be missing something fundamentally just can't seem to find out what it is. I tried using storyboard as well. and changing the function to:

- (void)goNotificationNow
{[self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"notifications" sender:self];}

Answer 1

Your target is nil. You should set it to self. The target is the object that will perform the selector call.

Answer 2

You need to set the target for the action, in this case you're probably wanting to change target:nil to target:self.