Nigeria is gradually tilting towards full blown dictatorship – PDP

by Azeez Adeniyi The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the expulsion of a State House Correspindent from the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Chief Security Officer to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abubakar Bashir had expelled a Punch reporter for two publications against the Presidency. The action had led to public outcry, leading to the Presidency recalling the... Read More

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dictatorship, Ecpulsion of reporter, PDP, Presidency, press freedom

April 25, 2017

I told Nigerians no one will be spared from Buhari’s tyranny – Fayose

by Azeez Adeniyi Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has condemned the expulsion of a State House Correspondent from the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said such decision was a sign from a dictatorial government. He described it as... Read More

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May 31, 2013

Opinion: These are President Jonathan’s mid-term scores, and why

by Oche Joseph Otorkpa Overall the administration has recorded some highs and some lows nevertheless for the country to achieve any meaningful development we must rise above sectarian divisions…. During the presentation of his mid-term report on wednesday May 29th 2013 the President Challenged citizen’s to come up with a marking scheme and score his Administration,... Read More

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May 5, 2013

Dapo Olorunyomi: Media freedom & the threat of impunity by the Jonathan gov’t

by Dapo Olorunyomi The past half a decade has been perhaps the most challenging years since Nigeria’s return to civil rule in 1999. Literally, the fate of some 160 million citizens have been caught between nationalist insurgents in the south, and Islamist terrorists in the north, with no relief from a distressing canopy of spectacularly... Read More

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April 11, 2013

Reuben Abati: Leadership Newspapers should not get away with this voodoo journalism

by Reuben Abati Our attention has been drawn to a statement by the Leadership Newspaper titled “Statement on the Arrest and Detention of LEADERSHIP journalists” (April 10), the latest episode in the matters arising from the same newspaper’s publication of an alleged “Presidential Directive” which we have had cause to disavow because the basis of... Read More

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