Nigerian Follow Up

There has been some other news coming out of Nigeria in reference to my last blog post. If you recall there was new legislation being put into effect that was highly suspected as empowering the government to censor the media. There has been a response from the government where they state "said the bill was not aimed at gagging the media, but to enhance it as well as the wellbeing of practitioners." another interesting quote was stated as "“Every profession has ethics. This is the stage where we want contributions from everybody, not condemnation. We need inputs from the media. It is only unfortunate that people say it is about killing the media. Why would anybody gag the media in 2010? It has been committed to a committee headed by Prince Tony Momoh. Channels Television was closed down the other time. That shouldn’t happen again,” this is something that I am going to continue to watch. Working in and out of these countries I have a vested interest in knowing that the information I can find and consume is accurate and fair. This will be a step back for Nigeria (a country that has made considerable progress) if it passes.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=160443