An Example of Daily Trust’s Pro-Regime Guidelines for Columnists By Farooq Kperogi

Expand the photos below to read an example of the childish “guidelines” Daily Trust management periodically sends to its columnists. Note that it never sent such guidelines (at least to me) when Obasanjo, Yar’adua, and Jonathan held sway. It’s obvious that the writers of this memo (and others like it in my email inbox) have zero understanding of what a newspaper column means. There’s nowhere in the world that newspaper columnists are told how to write and how not to write, what to write about and what not to write…