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Buhari, Lawan recommit to free press as Ortom gets backlash


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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s commitment to free press, urging the professionals to wield freedom responsibly and without licentiousness.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja at an event to mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day holding today, the Nigerian leader pointed out that freedom of the press was “an irreducible minimum in a democracy that would flourish, but must be used responsibly.”
He went on: “That everything is permitted does not mean that there are no rules of correctness, particularly in a polity seriously challenged as ours now.
“The media must be sensitive to what we are going through as a country, and anything that would exacerbate the situation should be avoided. The media need to ensure that while informing, educating, entertaining and setting agenda for public discourse, they do not encourage incendiary words and actions that could further hurt our unity in diversity.” ....

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