‘No Journalist Jailed for Responsible Reporting Under Tinubu’ – Minister

• Minister Idris states no journalist jailed for responsible journalism under Tinubu.

• Media freedom praised during Abuja briefing for World Press Freedom Day.

• Idris condemns misinformation, urges honesty for media growth.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, stated that no journalist has been imprisoned for practicing responsible journalism under the administration of Bola Tinubu.

He made this announcement during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, which was organized by his ministry in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment and Ecological Management and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization to mark this year’s World Press Freedom Day.

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Idris said, “I have not seen somebody in the life of this administration, for example, who has been put in jail, or who has gone into exile as a result of press freedom.

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“We knew what has happened in this country in the past. Some decades ago, we know that you have to leave this country to be able to report.

“I can tell you that the press in Nigeria is largely free but that freedom will further be consolidated if honesty and transparency are upheld in the manner that we report

“As a ministry and government, we provided the most unfettered access to journalists and provided the enabling environment that has continued to encourage the Nigerian media to grow in leaps and bounds.”

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Idris further emphasized that while the media enjoys significant freedom in Nigeria, he condemned the dissemination of falsehoods and misinformation as irresponsible journalism, clarifying that such actions should not be conflated with the concept of press freedom.

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