 The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, Horywa, has tasked the media practitioners with the need to instill ethics and professionalism in their reportage. This admonition was given in a press conference in Abuja by the National Coordinator of the Association, Comrade Emmanuel Ongbuko. Comrade Ongbuko says Horywa is among the few groups in the country that supported freedom of the press in line with section 22 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended. People who support freedom of the press, Horywa actually started basically as an offshoot of the media to use the media to expose the ills of the society. That is the reason why Horywa started. And basically it is founded on journalism. So we know about journalistic ethics. So if you damage somebody's reputation, even if the person hires 20 S.I.Ns and goes to court and remain in court for the next 20 years, it is not even possible for the person that have read the first story to read that there is a court judgment. It's not a job publication. They have to be brought on that. He added that Horywa is however worried by the misdemeanor that has continued to emerge, stating that journalism should not be a trade, but a profession. That journalism is not a trade. Some of us, when we are in practice, we are probably telling people that this is a trade. It's not a trade. You are not trade us, but professionals. I think we need to even have a seminar to define these two terms, this concept. I don't know whether mass communicators have a different kind of concept, conceptualization about the word trade. Those three major professional bodies have collapsed and informed a particular platform. They are still in existence, very powerful. NGE, NUJ, and other ones are out there, but they now decided to set up a tribunal, a small body of experts in the media. So if you have an issue with any media house, it's not always good to rush to the court first because it is expensive to go to court. Even if you pay a lawyer $500,000, it's very expensive to go to court and start it from beginning to the end. It is better to have negotiators.