Fellow Journalists, Today Is World Press Freedom Day.

"Journalism provides a platform for informed discussion across a wide range of development issues – from environmental challenges and scientific progress to gender equality, youth engagement and peacebuilding. Only when journalists are at liberty to monitor, investigate and criticize policies and actions can good governance exist."

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
    and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova

2014 Theme: Media Freedom for a Better Future:
Shaping the post-2015 Development Agenda

World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO's General Conference. Since then, 3 May, the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek is celebrated worldwide as World Press Freedom Day. It is an opportunity to:

    celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom;
    assess the state of press freedom throughout the world;
    defend the media from attacks on their independence;
    pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

What is the role of Nigerian journalists in acheiving all these?