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Press Freedom is the lifeblood of democracy To make press freedom significant in Nigeria therefore, the horde of restrictive legislations still in the books or crawling to become laws in parliament must be thrown out. ADVERTISEMENT Quite fittingly, President Muhammadu Buhari’s message of solidarity to the Nigerian freedom of expression community on the occasion of today’s 30th anniversary of the World Press Freedom Day has stressed the theme that a democracy without flourishing press freedom is a misnomer. In the challenging march to build an enduring democracy, the world has finally come...

Views: Visits 39 Scores of Nigerian journalists gathered this week in Abuja to discuss the state of press freedom in the country and the ethical codes of conduct that guide their practice at a three-day training event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Foundation. The training, facilitated by leading media, academic, legal and civil society professionals, saw intensive discussion around laws hindering press freedom; the use of defamation as a tool of suppressing press freedom; public perception of media and press freedom as well as guiding principles of code of conduct a...