Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, has revealed that no journalist has been imprisoned under the Bola Tinubu governments for practising responsible journalism.
While speaking on Friday in Abuja during a press briefing, the Minister said, “I have not seen somebody in the life of this administration, for example, who has been put in jail, or who has gone into exile as a result of press freedom.
“We knew what has happened in this country in the past. Some decades ago, we know that you have to leave this country to be able to report. I can tell you that the press in Nigeria is largely free but that freedom will further be consolidated if honesty and transparency are upheld in the manner that we report
“As a ministry and government, we provided the most unfettered access to journalists and provided the enabling environment that has continued to encourage the Nigerian media to grow in leaps and bounds.”
Idris went on, noted that press freedom in Nigeria is still largely intact, he distinguished between irresponsible journalism and the dissemination of misleading information and falsehoods.
