Journalism Is Now Cash And Carry
What is the story of Nigeria's failure as a nation? It is the story of the failure of journalism which refused to watch over the power players but rather watch over the pockets of the journalists.
By Tunde Akande
My friend and workmate, Professor Jimi Kayode, now of Lagos State University, teaching mass communication but formerly director of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism in Lagos where we worked together told me a story about the decadence that has become of journalism and journalists in Nigeria. He was somewhere on the Lekki Ajah axis in Lagos standing at a bus stop waiting for public transport, usually bone shakers; he had no car. After waiting for some time under the intense heat he got tired but then a state-of-the-art car parked at the bus stop and the driver beckoned to him.
