Ogun NUJ @50: Democracy at risk without credible press - Ex-AGF warns

Former Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr Oluwatoyin Madein, has warned that Nigeria's ideology volition stay exposed to manipulation if the property fails to support information and rebuild nationalist trust.

Madein gave the informing connected Thursday portion delivering the keynote code astatine the 50th day of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ogun State Council, held astatine Iwe Irohin Press Centre, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta.

The day lecture was themed: "Truth, Trust and the Press: Protecting Democratic Choice and Rebuilding Public Trust successful Journalism."

Madein described the solemnisation arsenic a jubilee of courageousness and a renewal of the journalist's covenant with truth, noting that Ogun remains the cradle of Nigerian journalism wherever Iwe Irohin was founded successful 1859 by Rev Henry Townsend.

She said the authorities has produced property icons similar Aremo Olusegun Osoba and the precocious Chief MKO Abiola, whose June 12 conflict present defines Nigeria's Democracy Day.

She nevertheless warned that journalism is facing its fiercest test, with falsehood travelling faster than truth.

“For without truth, spot collapses; without trust, the property loses its motivation authority; and without a credible press, antiauthoritarian prime is near exposed to manipulation.

"Artificial quality offers singular tools, but it tin besides manufacture convincing deception. Social platforms reward heat, haste and outrage; journalism indispensable st...