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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.”
ANALYSIS: As Nigeria continues to miss gas flaring deadlines, huge revenue is lost
In 2020 alone, natural gas valued at $1.24 billion was burned by oil companies, one which could generate the annual electricity use of 804 million Nigerian citizens. 5 min read
Since 1979, Nigeria has missed out on ending gas flaring on at least seven occasions. The country is now targetting 2025 to end the environmentally unfriendly, health-damaging and resource-losing act.
Each time Nigeria misses out on the deadlines set to harness gas belching from its oil fields, it loses revenue and an opportunity to ramp up power generation.
Experts believe the gas Nigeria flares on its oil fields could be a huge revenue trove worth billions of dollars if well harnessed for use as liquefied natural gas or for plastics or fertilizers.
New Threats To Press Freedom, By Gloria Mabeiam Ballason
When all is said and done, principles matter.
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Every threat provides an opportunity and when the most is made of the opportunity, it produces a desired outcome. The new or subsisting threats to the media can largely be surmounted by the basic codes and canons of journalism like courage, truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, social justice and public accountability. I would, to those codes, add consistency in upholding values.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 10 of the Human Rights Act, and Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria confer on humans the right to freedom of opinion, expression, the press, and the right to receive and impart information and ideas, without interference by the public authority and regardless of frontiers. This is a qualified right, which enables anyone to hold free opinion and express them verbally, i
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The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), a West African media innovation and development organisation, has, through its sub-regional fact-checking project, Dubawa, named its coveted fact-checking and research fellowship after the media advocate and scholar, Professor Kwame Karikari.
The fellowship will, therefore, now be known as the Kwame Karikari Fact-Checking and Research Fellowship.
Prof. Karikari, a former Director of the School of Communication Studies of the University of Ghana and also former Dean of Communication Studies at the Wisconsin University, is the Founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
He is currently the Board Chairman of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL).