These journalists were assaulted for covering

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The ENDSARS protest, were arrested six of whom were charged in court mostly under the Terrorism or Cybercrime Act. Three Media outlets were attacked and four media outlets were fined by the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation as a punitive measure for their coverage.“Cyberstalking” and “injurious falsehood” have become the catchphrase of the easy resort by a government fully committed to criminalizing dissent and who have hired trolls paid from taxpayers money.

My brief is to discuss new threats to press freedom, the overt and covert attempts to limit these freedoms, the implications  Buy Bulk SMS Service of the current state of affairs especially as it relates to the Social Media bill and then to proffer customized strategies for resisting press suppression that presently ravages the Nigeria Media and civic space.NEW THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM IN NIGERIAThere are at least three appointments in the official Nigerian media space that could help illustrate the point.

Since Alhaji Lai Rauf Mohammed has been Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Garba Shehu is the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Buhari while Lauretta Onochie is the President’s Special Assistant on Social Media. On st December at a meeting with Newspapers editors, Alhaji Lai said ‘ The war against Boko Haram is largely won…We have so degraded the capacity of Boko Haram that the terrorists can no longer hold unto any territory.