Thread by @RGAMeyer

Sir @NkanuEgbe's advert post reminded me of Sir @DapsyOly's question on if or how the state should be assisting the Nigerian media industry.
Nigeria has treated her journalism like her politics - concentrated power at the "centre."
Hyperlocal media outlets are never factored in.

We have hyperlocal publications that cover niche sectors in well-defined geographical locations e.g @InsightMinna, @LagMetropolitan @insideuniuyo that never make it into media discourse, much less grant and assistance circles. It is like PDP or APC and the rest can bugger off.

What is happening in our politics, where it is either you are PDP or APC and jobbers flit into one or the other to boost their chances, is what is occurring in our media. We have to get to a place where hyperlocals are accorded the support and respect they deserve. As elsewhere.

There's no sophistication in a system that ignores its foot-soldiers & fixates on a few big names. If we want a sophisticated polity? We've to develop roundly.
Want a sophisticated press? We have to develop beyond Lagos-Abuja axis/cabal.
Else mediocrity of coverage continues.

COVID-19 is the largest belwether of the collective non-support of hyperlocals: large swathes of our populations remain under-reported.
And we know why.👇
Where is the funding and training to help eager reporters do the job?
Best we all come together.
Fast.
God bless Nigeria.🤲