Media Must Promote Inclusion Rather Than Sectarian Exclusion

By Esther Olaifa



Ekiti state Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has recommended that the media must promote inclusion rather than sectarian exclusion.



Fayemi said this at the 50th Anniversary & 6th Convocation  of The Nigerian Institute of Journalism during his lecture on ' Media, National Security and Nation Building', recently.

He provided the background of the role of the media in strengthening national security and deepening democracy in Nigeria.

"We can say in the Nigerian context, ‘No Media, no nation!’ And we will mean this" He opined as he acknowledged the fact that there can be no true democracy without an independent media, but also in the specific reality of Nigeria: that without the important work and sacrifices by the pro-democracy press, Nigeria could not have had democratic rule today.

He  emphasized the fact that intellection has been at the centre of a certain tradition of the Nigerian press. This is also why media intellectuals have had a lot of useful things to say about the organization of the Nigerian state and society with almost the same level of insight and penetration, but certainly with equal measure of zeal and commitment, as the Nigerian social scientists.

Media intellectuals helped in redefining the parameters of the debate and re-centered democratic rule which was the only guarantee of Nigeria’s continued survival.

He charged NIJ not to lose sight of his overarching responsibility as an intellectual crucible for the training of our journalists.

He added that, If the Nigerian media fail to play the role they have played in the past to press for and help promote the Imperatives of unity in diversity and sustain democratic rule, there is no doubt that democratic rule will atrophy and the nation building process will go into reverse gear. Hence, the need to instill such lessons in an enduring manner in the intellectual tradition of this institution.

The access that the media affords ordinary citizens, it has been noted, creates conditions of dialogues between the rulers and the ruled so it is be used effectively to promote unity and Inclusion.

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