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‘Ethnicity, poverty, insecurity have destroyed Nigerian press’ – University Don

Aminu Imam

The Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Kashere, in Gombe State, Prof Umaru Pate, has identified ethnicity, poverty, threats from government and non-state actors, self-censorship, digital insecurity and psychological threats as some of the major challenges facing media freedom in Nigeria. Prof Pate, who gave a keynote address during the 2023 World Press Freedom Day celebration, on the theme: “Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of Expression as Driver for All Other Human Rights”, organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa-Ibom State Council, at the Press Centre, Uyo on…

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‘Nigeria is a Banana Republic without enough bananas to eat’ – Don

Aminu Imam

Multiple award-winning poet, scholar, playwright and public intellectual at the University of New Orleans, Niyi Osundare, has declared that there is no government in the country, saying that ‘Nigeria is a Banana Republic without enough bananas to eat’. The accomplished academic stated this at a book reading, tagged: “An Evening with Professor Osundare”, which was held at Roving Heights in Victoria Island, Lagos on Sunday, against the backdrop of the failure of governance and governmental recklessness in Nigeria. Osundare also got the audience roaring with laughter when he said “Nigeria…

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