Regional Director, UNESCO, Yao Ydo; NUJ national President, Chirs Isiguzo; Police spokesman, ACP Frank Mba and NUJ Chairman, Abuja, Emmanuel Ogbephe at the 2019 World Press Freedom Day event organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in collaboration with the Free Press Unlimited and others, recently in Abuja
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on everyone to defend the rights of journalists whose efforts help to build a better world for all.
In a message read by the Director, UN Information Centre (UNIC) Nigeria, Mr. Ronald Kayanja, at this year’s observance of World Press Freedom Day organised by UNIC and the Centre of Excellence, Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Guterres, said he was “deeply troubled by the growing number of attacks and the culture of impunity’’ targeted at media workers around the world.”
About 100 journalists were killed in 2018, with hundreds…
