WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: HOW FREE IS THE NIGERIAN PRESS TODAY?
Adesuyi Adeniyi In the mood of anticipating tomorrow’s celebration of the international freedom of the press day, it is pertinent for one to examine how the virtue of a free press has thrived in Nigeria both politically and in all spheres of our nationhood. With Nigeria returning to full democratic rule in 1999, the grass seemed greener on the horizon for the Nigerian press which had been submerged in repressive military administrations for over three decades. Fast forward nineteen years, Nigeria is today ranked 119th of 180 countries on the 2018 World Press Freedom index published by Reporters Without Borders (RWB), having gone up three places on the log from the previous year.