USA Africa Dialogue Series - the media as the problem with nigeria: not a criticism, just an observaton,

The media as the problem with Nigeria; not a criticism

 ,just an observation by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth,London,England

In My own opinion , MONITORING and EVALUATION of government at the three tiers of government and the three arms of government  including the civil service  are our greatest problems. Our focus seem to be to much on the presidency whilst allowing others to grow without back bone or the critical support that would strengthen their bones,sharpen their minds and rejuvenate their spirits

There are  thousands more of newspapers, magazines, journals and even books to address this problems, it means there are enormous number of jobs

 out here that our youths can claim for themselves  as editorial,

staff,production,circulation etc

The media in Nigeria is such that  there is an obsession for the federal executive or better put the president or the [presidency almost to the total; exclusion of the other  arms of government namely judiciary and the national assembly.  And other tiers of government,this could be seen as an ENTREPRENEURIAL GAP by investors or by even the unemployed.we do not realy have to complain about it,lets see these as business opportunities because nigeria practices market economy and not socialism. So we should strive to use the ,market to address this pr

problem: we use this in the news reports, views, interviews and features.

Even at these we do have enough of  persons who are  able to or objectively interpret  what government is doing, the benefits, the drawbacks the  consequences,

It seems we are still operating on the principle  that if you do not hit the government people would not but your paper, now this is the principle I learnt from the veteran journalist segun osoba. He signed my certificate at  NIJ, but i think i have to start going beyond that

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