Nigeria: Jonathan Assures of Press Freedom

26 May 2012

Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists that the freedom guaranteed media practitioners in the discharge of their constitutional responsibility would not be temper with by his administration the freedom of the press as enshrined in the country's constitution.

The President who spoke while while declaring open the Fourth Triennial National Delegates' Conference of the NUJ in Abuja also denied media reports that he had sent a list of ministerial nominees to the State Security Service for screening.

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