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NIGERIANS MUST RESIST INCREASING ASSAULT ON PRESS FREEDOM

The plan to muzzle the press is wrong and counterproductive At a period when Nigerians are seeking ways to salvage their country from its present travails, the wilful courting of dictatorship cannot be a route to national salvation and healing. That unfortunately seems to be the preferred destination choice for the current administration. From inserting controversial clauses in the electoral bill to circumscribe transparent elections to a desperate plot to plant a partisan presidential attack dog in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it is obvious that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has scant regards for democratic ethos. However, the real concern is the crude attempt to tamper with fundamental freedoms, going by proposed bills to regulate the print and electronic media via a dubious press code and licensing regime that would register or delist journalists based on the whims of some politicians.

Assault on the press cannot stand

Assault on the press cannot stand
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