World Press Freedom Day: Actionaid charges FG to tackle media repression
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By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate 2021 World Press Freedom Day, ActionAid Nigeria, AAN, Monday, charged Federal Government on action to improve poor record on media repression.
This was stated by the Country Director, AAN, Ene Obi, which Obi pointed that in Nigeria, there has been a consistent and dangerous attempt by both state and non-state actors to gag the media.
According to her, there have been moves to “expurgate and censure the media and journalists while doing their legitimate duties.”
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Every year World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on May 3 to commemorate journalists and highlight the difficulties they face while reporting truth.
And since reporting the truth is no easy task, journalists require a degree of freedom, which is usually guaranteed in the constitutions of various democratic nations and in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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