By Hope James
The Federal Government has tasked foreign media, including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), to be unbiased in their reportage on issues concerning Nigeria, Edum News reports.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, gave this charge while playing host to a delegation from the BBC in his office in Abuja.
He urged them to maintain the principles of accuracy, balance and fairness as well as objectivity in their daily reportage.
According to him, the media should not only focus on reporting the bad news about the country, but balance it by reporting the good things also.
He said, “I want to share with you the commitment of the Nigerian Government to every news gathering organization. Our commitment is that we want to stay as focussed and unbiased and as free as possible.
“The thrust of the policy of the Tinubu administration is that every news organization has the freedom to practice the profession and am happy you didn’t report to us any of your staff, who has been molested or under any kind of pressure from the Nigerian government.
“The Nigerian people are actually partners with the BBC and this partnership goes back several decades and that commitment to what we hear on the BBC and the respect and trust our people have, have been largely unbroken for the last five to six decades”.
