INTRODUCTION

The main aim of this course is to acquaint student with general knowledge of law particularly laws that regulate media practice.

A successful media practitioner is a practitioner that operates under ambit of the law. A media practitioner must know how to legally or rightfully receive and give information. The word legally is used because every individual has his legal right as such media practitioners run the risk of standing trial for offences, sedition, defamation, copyright, contempt of court and parliament and etc.

It is pertinent to note that the public has the right to know the truth of information development. For any country to develop, it must rely on information in and outside its environment.

This course shall expose the student to various legislations that regulate the activities bf the media such laws are to be found in pre-independence enactments, the criminal and penal codes laws passed between 1960-1966 and decrees promulgated by military regimes between 1966 and 1999 and the present 1999 constitution. In addition to the legislations we shall look at the issues of media practitioners and human right reporting.