By Banji
Ojewale
In nineteen eighty four, when we all stood in awe of Decree Four; to differ from officialdom as represented by
Nigeria’s military junta headed by Muhammadu Buhari was a perilous path to
perdition. The soldiers brooked no dissent as they waved the draconian law
before all, notably newsmen.
The law, the most outrageous and pernicious by any military dictator
in Nigeria, forbade reporters from publishing or broadcasting what the
authorities ‘’calculated to bring the Federal Military Government or the
Government of a State or a public officer to ridicule or disrepute.’’
