Press Freedom Day: Attacks on journalists weakening accountability – SERAP, NGE

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, person urged the Federal Government to guarantee much property state and capable extortion of journalists.

The groups made the telephone astatine a associated quality league successful Ikeja, Lagos, to people the World Press Freedom Day celebrated annually connected May 3.

The associated quality league was addressed by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Mr Kolawole Oluwadare, and NGE Secretary, Mr Onuoha Ukeh, who was represented by Mr Gabriel Akinadewo.

The league was themed ‘Role of the Media successful Promoting People’s Rights, Accountability and Access to Justice successful the Context of Growing Insecurity successful Nigeria’.

SERAP and NGE emphasised that protecting journalists and safeguarding accusation integrity were cardinal drivers of peace, information and antiauthoritarian stability.

According to the groups, immoderate credible bid promotion oregon information strategy successful Nigeria indispensable integrate enactment for free, autarkic and pluralistic media, alongside humanitarian, organization and economical responses.

The groups expressed concerns astir ...