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December 17, 2017: Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has challenged media professionals to be more efficient in carrying out their duties in order to help in effectively tackling the issues the country is being faced with. During a media chat on Saturday, at the 50th birthday celebration of a foremost journalist, Kadaria Ahmed,\u00a0Osinbajo said:<\/div>\n

\u201cOur press is and has always been one of the most vibrant in the world. I don\u2019t think there is any doubt about that. Nigerians have always been people that love to talk and to express themselves and foreigners routinely mistake our random good-natured Nigerian conversations for bitter quarreling sometimes, on account of the stridency with which our argument sometimes are assembled and dismantled.”<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can always take it for granted that no matter the intensity of the clampdown on press freedom in Nigeria, there will always be a prominent group of journalists, who will refuse to be cowed, who will seize every tool at their disposal to hold the authorities to account \u2013 and this will be as true a century from today as it was in the 1990\u2019s,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou may not be able to blame financial challenges on the absence of archives. If anything, the blame should rest squarely on an absence of vision or a lack of understanding of the media\u2019s role in the society. I think that we need to be more visionary about these things.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut even more interesting is that perhaps some of the challenges that the media is confronted with could be solved by a return to basic principles to rediscovering and understanding our place in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I happen to think that a number of Nigerians, not to talk of foreigners, researchers, analysts, would even pay a premium for properly organized newspaper or TV or radio archives, dating back at least a few decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial media in many cases is almost flaky in its response to those things \u2013 Yes there is a little bit of concern and the next moment, that\u2019s gone off and there\u2019s some other flavour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that influencers and the press in Nigeria, owe a special responsibility to this nation because the nature of our issues are peculiar and these issues are cross-cutting, they are fundamental, and we must face them and deal with them,”<\/p>\n

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