The trio, who spoke at a conference on Hate Speech and Campus Journalism Awards Ceremony organised by Youths Digest in Abuja, warned that hate speech, as evil does nobody any good, must be avoided by politicians and religious leaders in the interest of the corporate existence of the country.
Browsing: Dapo Olorunyomi
The Editor of the Youths Digest magazine, Gidado Yushau Shuaib, disclosed that top public functionaries, editors and campus journalists would attend the event
He said that the organisation was collaborating with some agricultural stakeholders to effectively address the challenges facing the agricultural sector, with a view to finding the way forward.
Since Dapo is not one to talk about himself, much less celebrate a milestone, it is only fitting to do this tribute—for the sake of the younger generation of Nigerian journalists—in a country where true heroes and heroines are in short supply and charlatans and scoundrels, whether as lawmakers or chief executives, have taken over our political and social spheres.
The Chief of Army staff should be wary of busy-body consultants or lawyers who may wish to profit from the crisis by instigating him to take irrational steps against the media. No one fights the press publicly, especially credible media, in attempt to enforce censorship, not self-censorship, and get away with it unscathed
This position was stated on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
The NGE described the development as unwarranted assault on the freedom of the press and undue interference
The newspaper, in a statement by its Managing Editor, Chris Akinbajo, promised to to disappoint in the discharge of its duties going forward
The FCT Police Commissioner, Mohammed Mustafa, admonished the military and the media on the need to sustain mutual relationship towards protecting national security and interest
The urgent appeal followed the arrest of Dapo Olorunyomi, the Publisher of PREMIUM TIMES, and the Judiciary Correspondent of the newspaper, Evelyn Okakwu
They were taken to the FCT Police Command following a complaint against the newspaper by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai
The raid was carried out at about 5pm, according to the credible online newspaper
The one-word report that the site had been “blocked” was the depressing information, which alerted them that we had come under a ferocious and hostile cyber attack, a process, which actually started on Friday