Communication

Hold Government Accountable, Sowumi Tells Journalists

By Web News 289

By Oluwatoyin Adegoke

Media regulators, professionals, investors in the industry, and the government, among other stakeholders, have been charged to intensify efforts at protecting the media environment from fake news.

A prominent political leader and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Segun Sowunmi gave the charge in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while speaking with newsmen on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

Mr Sowunmi, who maintained that access to information technology and the internet, had expanded the operational space for journalists and custodians of information urged them to guard against misinformation, media victimization, and cyberbullying.

Mr Sowunmi, who said that a certain level of press freedom existed in the country, emphasized that the safety of journalists must be accorded priority, considering the peril and risks of the job.

Mr Sowunmi explained that the media as the fourth Estate of the Realm must continue to hold the government accountable to the people on the need to address salient issues, including the current global environmental crisis in line with the theme for this year’s celebration, ”A press for the planet: Journalism in the face of Environmental crisis”

Speaking on the Country’s electoral system, Mr Sowunmi maintained that there was a need to reform,  restructure, and redirection of political parties to live up to expectations as the platform for the people to pursue political ambitions.

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Politics

Media Should Be Used To Promote Good Governance – Muhammed Onogwu

By Web News 598

The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Mr. Muhammed Onogwu has urged social media users to ensure that the Social Media space was being used to promote good governance.

Mr Onogwu said this while delivering an address after he was conferred with an Award of Kogi Social Media Man of Honour.

He noted that Social Media has become a veritable and effective platform for the citizens to make demands on good governance, express concerns and demand justice.

He added that with over three billion social media users cutting across the globe, young persons who formed the larger percentage have relentlessly found the platform as a safe bay to speak their minds and express their opinions for or against an individual, organisation or government.

Mr. Onogwu submitted that the abuse of the Social Media has a more damaging impact on governance as well as other very crucial aspect of the society and human endeavours noting that a larger part of the dangers relating to the social Media are majorly human flaws and inputs.

He urged residents of the state to use Social Media to promote the state developments to the world.

Olaolu Fawole