Adeyinka Adeyemi is a Senior Adviser at ECA’s African Trade Policy Center, where he leads the work on AfCFTA policy advocacy and customs coordination to enhance trade facilitation in Africa. Earlier, he led the project to harmonize policies, laws and regulations pertaining to infrastructure investment in Africa as mandated by African Heads of State and the domestication of PIDA model law on infrastructure investment in Africa, which was endorsed by African Heads of State.
The Nigerian Press Under the Military: Persecution, Resilience and Political Crisis (1983–1993)
May 1, 1995
A paper by Adeyinka Adeyemi, fall 1993 fellow, analyzes Nigeria’s media landscape and finds that despite outward signs of a modern and vibrant press/government relationship, the country’s press is still not truly free. Adeyemi traces the oscillation between subtle and unsubtle forms of coercion and cooptation used by a series of military governments since the
