Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe

The Nigerian media will on Monday inaugurate a nine-member board of the National Media Complaints Commission (NMCC), otherwise known as the National Ombudsman. This is contained in a statement by Kabiru Yusuf, President of Newspapers Proprietor Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and President, Nigeria Press Organisation (NPO). Yusuf said in the statement, issued on Friday in Lagos, that members of the commission were drawn from the media, the bar, the academia and civil society. He said that step had become imperative in the bid to strengthen public confidence in the media as a credible barometer of public opinion. Yusuf listed membership…

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