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PRESS STATEMENT: NIGERIAN PRESS COUNCIL NOT AGAINST PRESS FREEDOM

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 …

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NIGERIAN PRESS COUNCIL STATEMENT ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

                                                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 …

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Spotlight on NPC @ 20

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 …

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NPC, UNDP Train Journalists

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 …

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NPC Holds Workshop on FOI Law

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 …

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