Nigeria’s Media Democracy: A 2023 Elections Postscript and the Urgency of Now – THISDAYLIVE

PERSPECTIVE By Paul Obi “The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Democracy is a tricky phenomenon.

Regrettably, not much scholarly interrogation has focused on this contemporary challenge; nor has the crisis formed part of the fulcrum within the discursive space in Nigeria. Inadvertently, the Nigerian media hardly engages itself or self-reflect.

Propelled and bugged by the dearth of global standard and deep scholarly works in media scholarship in Nigeria compared to the fields of law and political science, the book is a pool of distinguished experts with both academic and practical journalistic field experience.

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