Even INEC admonishes the media? By Tonnie Iredia
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No other group played a greater role than the media in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence. The British had to harass Nigerian media professionals using obnoxious laws that confiscated freedom of speech in the colony. The Newspaper Ordinance of 1903, the Seditious Offences Ordinance of 1909, the Criminal Code of 1916 and the Newspaper Registration Act of 1917 were all enacted to gag the press from continuing to criticise the colonial government. For the same reason, media freedom was in abso
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