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PRESS STATEMENT  PRESS COUNCIL NOT FOR GAGGING THE PRESS  The attention of the Nigerian Press Council has been drawn to the editorial of The Punch of Tuesday, July 30, 2013 titled ‘Back to dictatorship through Press Council’, which to say the least is a cocktail of half truth, misrepresentations of facts and in some portions […]

PRESS STATEMENT  NIGERIAN PRESS COUNCIL NOT AGAINST PRESS FREEDOM  The attention of the Nigerian Press Council has been drawn to misleading reports based on a communiqué and advertorial by Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) that the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) is moribund, as a High Court has ruled the existence of the Council to

                                                NIGERIAN PRESS COUNCIL STATEMENT ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY   PRESS FREEDOM AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY Today, we mark May 3 World Press Freedom Day; as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1993. The essence is firstly, to raise awareness on the importance of freedom of the press; secondly, to remind governments

The Nigerian Guilds of Editors has decried what appears to be a siege to the media. It stated this in the Communiqué issued at the end of its Standing Committee meeting held in Ilorin between April 18 and 20, 2013. The Guild referred to the recent harassment and detention of journalists of the Leadership newspaper

The attention of the Nigerian Press Council has been drawn to the reported arrest of four personnel of the Leadership newspaper stable. The four are Mrs. Chinyere Fred-Adebulugbe, Mr. Chuks Ohuegbe, Mr. Tony Amokeodo and Mr. Chibuzor Ukaibe. Council wishes to reiterate that journalists should not be encumbered in carrying out their civic and constitutional

The need for the maintenance of the highest standard in different professions had always necessitated the establishment of various regulatory bodies. The journalism profession not an exception. The obligation of the mass media as contained in section 22 of 1999 constitution empowers the media to “uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to the

Benue State, the State popularly referred to as the food basket of the nation, served as host for Journalists from seven states of the North Central geo-political zone who converged in the State capital, Makurdi, for a two-day capacity building programme under the auspices of the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and the Democratic Governance for

The Nigerian Press Council has held the second phase of its workshop on sensitization of journalists and the general public on the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, 2011. The conference which was held at Mokland Hotel, Otta, Ogun State from February 1 – 2, 2012, with the theme‘FoI Act : Implementation and Challenges to Journalists’ was