This book discusses the role, place, achievements, and failings of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in the quest for press freedom, professional respect, press responsibility, and accountability. It is as much an examination of an institutional platform as it is an analysis of the role of individual players in nurturing or restricting the objectives of the Guild as a professional association. From the innocuous beginning of 1961 during civil rule to the pressures of practice under military rule, and the embrace of civil rule again, the book traces the uneven steps in the emergence of the Guild as a preeminent voice in media and public affairs today. It is a story of courage and appeasement, an account of how the forces of history shaped the actors and how the actors in turn also shaped the course of history. Yet for all its achievements, there remain lingering issues that stifle professionalism, which the Guild and indeed the larger media must deal with if they wish to serve as “genuine pathfinders of enduring national development.”

Contents: Dedication/Table of Laws/Table of Cases/Foreword/Preface/Acknowledgements/In the Beginning/The Press at Independence /The  Guild’s Founding Fathers/The Guild under Military Rule (1966-1979)/The Guild in the Second Republic (1979-1983)/In Search of the Guild (1983-1988)/Resuscitation of the Guild  (1988)/Between Resurgence and Grovelling (1988-1992)/The Guild and Military Repression (1993-1998)/A more assertive Guild 1998-2013/Constitutional Crisis in the Guild/The Guild’s Fellowship Award/Who is an Editor?/The Editor in the Digital Age/The Associate Membership Conundrum/Who funds the Guild?/The Future of the Guild/Appendix A. The Guild’s Constitution (1961)/Appendix B. The Guild’s Constitution of 1988/Appendix C. The Guild’s Constitution of (2017)/Appendix D. Presidents of the Guild (1961-2017)/Appendix E. Fellows of the Nigerian Guild of Editors 

ISBN: 978-978-54332-4-1 (Paperback). YP: 2019. Pages: 195. Price: N5000, $5. Shipping cost depends on location.