Aramanda Okunrin

This opinion by Prof. Wole Soyinka on BringBackJonathan posters and the president's bring back all the warts policy is worth our five to ten minutes of reading and reflections. The dancing obscenity of Shekau and his gang of psychopaths and child abductors, taunting the world, mocking the BRING BACK OUR GIRLS campaign on internet, finally met its match in Nigeria to inaugurate the week of September 11 – most appropriately. Shekau’s dance macabre was surpassed by the unfurling of a political campaign banner that defiled an entry point into Nigeria’s capital of Abuja. That banner read:  BRING BACK JONATHAN 2015.

An examination of Olusegun Obasanjo's administration attitude to the broadcast media in Nigeria. This paper looks at the effort of his government at media centralisation during his return to government between 1999 and 2003. It also provides historical perspective to issue of efforts of governments in Nigeria at control of information flow in the country. Introduction Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired general in the Nigeria Army, former military Head of State and former civilian President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has had peculiar relationship with the media. Though Mohammed Buhari, another retired army general and former military Head of State had the notoriety of promulgating, the often termed draconian law, Decree 4, which prescribed stiff penalty for publishing, anything deemed falsehood against public official, Obasanjo it was that promulgated a law that was a forerunner of the dreaded Decree 4 of 1984.

Cultural and Economic Commitments The very nature of the process of gathering and disseminating news on daily, if not hourly, basis has in some ways denied the journalist the opportunity of deep reflection on the materials that get published. Often, some news items have no depth to justify either the space committed to them or the headlines given.