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Journal Article
Freedom of Expression and the Role of the Media in Promoting Individual Rights in Nigeria: A Theoretical Review
2025
Overview
This paper examines freedom of expression, government, and individual rights. The ‘media’ has played a vital role in informing and influencing the public's attitude towards society, and it has served as the watchdog and mouthpiece of its audience. The term media is an intervening part through which intuition, notion, belief and opinion are communicated to the common sense or vast segment of people simultaneously or differently. It is also a channel of communication through print, broadcast and the Internet. Human rights in Nigeria are secured under the pillar of the 1999 Constitution; the media plays a crucial role in both protecting and promoting human rights by acting as a watchdog, informing the public, and holding power accountable to the public. The media is also called the Fourth Estate because it has a societal role to observe the political process, shape the political atmosphere and hold political office holders accountable to the public. Once citizens choose their representatives in government, media men make sure politicians fulfil their promises by holding them accountable to the people. Journalists make sure that the government works to benefit society and respects the democratic system. This study used social responsibility theory to explain the work and the outcome of the paper, suggesting that freedom of the media is the solution to freedom of expression. However, it was recommended that the media should be encouraged to perform their duties as the fourth estate of the realm without withholding, gagging or restriction because information is power.
