The Federal Government of Nigeria has been described as a failure for making an attempt to amend the Nigeria Press Council law and the recent ban placed on twitter. Democracy depends on public opinion and you cannot have public opinion if you kill the press. The depth to which you hear the castigation of social media, I wonder whether people are forced to interphase with the social media. There is no government in the world that makes the press its enemy, that deals with the press the way we are heading. They should not take on the press, the press is the best out there to censor itself through its own organisations and so on.

Source: Punch July 12, 2021 23:15 UTC