Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has asked Nigeria’s chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI) to use the 2018 edition of the institute’s world congress in Abuja to project the country’s image around the world.
He gave the advice when the board of the Nigerian chapter of the IPI paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa.
According to him, “It is a very important opportunity for Nigeria to showcase ourselves and also to show that Nigeria is safe and secure for business.”
“It is also an opportunity to advertise all of our ease of doing business initiatives.’’
“The forum is an important one for raising the question of hate speech and its implications for our country, for our polity and for peace and security.’’
“Somehow these things are resonating all over the world, new found nationalism and all of that.”
“But I think for us here in Nigeria, it is a very important issue.”
“I think that it is important that we find ways of controlling these things.”
“I think that we owe a responsibility, especially leaders of journalism, to find ways of dealing with this issue because it is a cancer.’’
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