Nigeria: Desert Herald and Its Obtuse Reporting On Nigeria Immigration Service

Anyone will be forgiven if he or she wonders whether the management and reporters of Desert Herald are trained practitioners. Their self-righteous brand of journalism has been one of taking every important news from obtuse angles. Whenever they have no idea about what the trending news is, they tend to lift stories from unverified sources. Desert Herald's jejune presentation, couched mostly in bad English, full of grammatical errors has already become all too familiar.

Since the newspaper was founded, it has established a unique tradition of dragging the names of either successful businessmen or respected public servants in the mud. They would not even spare hardworking and committed civil servants and elected representatives, governors, lawmakers and so on. It is reminiscence of what Professor Wole Soyinka called 'gutter press journalism'.

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