Democracy is a widespread people's participatory system of government that runs deep into citizens ’consciousness with the freedom it promises and hits back to the cord of human preservation against oppression and human right violations.
By the administration’s constant threat to media houses and the incessant clampdown on their operations through the National Broadcasting Commission, the constitutional rights of the press as provided for in section 22 of the 1999 Constitution as amended is stifled. The NBC, in most occasions under this regime steps outside the confines of the powers provided for it in its Act to threaten sanctions to media houses even those not resident in the Nigerian soil.
Just recently, the government of Nigeria suspended Twitter – a micro-blogging site from operations in Nigeria because president Buhari’s twit was deleted. A twit wherein the president deployed genocidal threats and insensitive utterances that went against Twitter policy.
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