Media and Nigeria's Constitutional Democracy

Paul Obi is a journalist and research fellow at The Abuja School of Social and Political Thought.Taye C. Obateru is reader and former head of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Jos.Sam Amadi is associate professor of law, and director of The Abuja School of Social and Political Thought.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionPaul Obi, Taye C. Obateru and Sam AmadiChapter 2: Assessing the Legal Protection of Freedom of the Press in Nigeria’s Constitutional DemocracySam AmadiChapter 3: Media Censorship of Nigerian Presidential Elections: Navigating Candidates, Campaigns and the Monitory Democracy TheoryPaul ObiChapter 4: Who Watches the Watchdog? Ethical Interrogation of Self-Censorship of Nigerian MediaTaye C. ObateruChapter 5: The Shrinking Civic Space: Journalistic Hazards, Risks and Media Resistance to Censorship in NigeriaBridget Onochie, Lasisi Olagunju, Paul Ogwu and Paul ObiChapter 6: National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and Media Regulation in an Age of Information FluidityIgomu OnojaChapter 7: Walking the Tight Rope of National Security: Interrogating Public Interest to Know vs Security Implications of Media CoverageIbrahim Uba Yusuf, Senator Iroegbu and Brigadier General Sani K. Usman (Rtd)Chapter 8:

The work explores critical dimensions of freedom and unfreedom, within the context of constitutional democracy, through Nigeria's prism. This is helpful to the expansion of understanding of the increasingly complex concept of liberties, in the spaces and places of democracy; and in the mixed messages of actors within. It is, therefore, a significant entrant into the literature on constitutional democracy, and the shifting question of freedom, which should have otherwise been stable, given the fact that liberty is ideally envisaged in a democracy.