The Attorney-General of Lagos State, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN) and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), are among the legal personalities billed to speak at this year’s annual lecture organised by the National Association of Judicial Correspondents, NAJUC, Lagos branch.
The annual lecture with the theme, “Press Freedom In the New Social Media Age: Implications and the Laws,” will hold at the Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos, on Tuesday.
A statement issued and signed on Sunday by the chairman of NAJUC, Peter Fowoyo, said the lecture is expected to review some of the serious challenges that hinder press freedom in a democratic society such as Nigeria’s.
He expressed the need to guarantee press freedom under the Nigerian laws.
He said until the press was totally free that the nation could have sufficient peace, stability and progress and industrial revolution.
“The new social media has come to stay, yet, media practitioners/ journalists are not taking full advantage of it leaving the space for non-professionals not just spreading fake news but reaping heavily from it,” he said.
Apart from Onigbanjo, former Pro – Chancellor, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Chief Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN), will also grace the occasion.
He will chair the event while the royal father of the day is Oba Abdul- Fatai Aromire, the Ojora of Ijoraland.
Former online editor, the Nation, Mr. Lekan Otunfodunrin; founder of Centre for Law and Civil Culture, Mr. Abdulganeey Imran, and a Lagos based legal practitioner, Mr. Bolanle Olugbani, are the discussants of the theme.
Other events include the commissioning of the refurbished Press Centre at the Court of Appeal, Lagos Divison, Igbosere, Lagos, award ceremony on individuals who have distinguished themselves in the sphere of their endeavours; launching of NAJUC Lagos Branch Website and free medical services for members of the association.
