Nigeria's leading media and journalism organisations are calling on the Federal Government and the National Assembly to step in against what they describe as the growing dominance of global digital platforms over the country's media and information ecosystem.
In a joint statement issued under the Nigerian Press Organisation NPO, the groups warned that unregulated foreign technology companies now wield outsized influence over how information is distributed and monetised in Nigeria, threatening the sustainability of local journalism and weakening national information sovereignty.
The NPO-which includes the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, and the Nigeria Union of Journalists-said global platforms now control much of Nigeria's digital advertising market, dictate content visibility through opaque algorithms, and extract advertising revenue offshore, while domestic news organisations struggle to survive.
