 There was a two-day capacity-building workshop for journalists who are members of the House of Representatives Press Corps. The theme of the workshop is deepening legislative knowledge through critical reporting. The purpose, according to the organizers, is to brainstorm on how to enhance legislative reportage and promote issues of national development. The speaker, Femi Bajabiamila, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, Dr. Yahya Danzaria, in their various capacities, delved into the importance and the role of media in nation building, while also cautioning on the need to avoid fake news and false reportage on the activities of the National Assembly. The role of the press in a democracy is multifaceted. You inform the public and you educate them about the law and government, politics and governance. You record history as it happens and preserve the national memory as a guide and warning for the future. And you hold power to account, ensuring that those who are chosen to serve the public interest keep faith with the citizens who depend on them. Democracy will not long survive without a vibrant, independent, innovative and patriotic press. The media is central to the success of any democracy and indeed any legislature. Because the media represents the people when it provides them information and report of activities in governance and representation without the media there cannot be a functional democracy or political participation in any democratic society. In your press week, it is important to take time to reflect on your relationship with the National Assembly in general, the House of Representatives in particular over the years. It is true that the media was the people's obligation to report development in quality. It is also important that such reports are not born out of expression for sensation, that destroys the democracy that we intend to build or protect. Coming to the House to do its duties, you call them out. What I'm saying is that the standards should be usual of all the lay standards. We should be that those who rock up to the House, those who are 10 planaries, those who are 10 committees, those are the laggards that you should promote those who are doing their work diligently. That's what I'm saying. So the standards should not be those who have money to throw around. I'm making myself clear because that's not the job. The job of a lawmaker is not the one who should be good. If they have the money to give scholarships, if they have the money to do a couple of those things, and if they can also, by virtue of their work, take projects to their consensus, that's not wrong with that. But what I'm saying is that lawmakers who are doing the real work of legislation, we should promote them. It's a critical time while we have big news. And we first is parading as journalists all over the world, particularly, and not particularly to Nigeria. So we'll continue to do our best. And that goes along with telling us that the need for training and retraining of journalists cannot be overemphasized. We'll continue to do our best together with national management to see that we're without part journalists amongst us in collaboration with the Nigeria Yellow Journalists. We know we face this a lot, particularly when committees are going on a high right. So we'll continue.