Time to give back to the Nigeria media
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 in Maiduguri at a Media Dialogue session of a two-day media workshop organised by the Nigeria INGO Forum, I had as part of my intervention to state my view again on the way all stakeholders in Nigeria have treated the media in the country. The story of the struggle for independence of Nigeria cannot be told without a mention of the media. In more recent years, the various struggles against military dictatorship and especially the citizens movement that evolved after the annulment of the June 12,1993 presidential elections had bite because of the role played by the media. Some of the facts associated with these are contained in Prof. Lai Oso's book on the media roles in Nigeria political struggles, Prof. Ayo Olukotun's Repressive State and Resurgent Media under Nigeria’s Military Dictatorship and Prof. Wale Adebamiwi's Trials & Triumphs: The Story of The News , a book on The News magazine. My masters degree thesis, Media, Mood and Movement:...