 Meantime, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE has congratulated all journalists in Nigeria and across the world for keeping faith with the tenets of the profession despite numerous challenges. The Guild urges media owners, the private sector and the government to provide special protection for journalists as most of them are often neglected and exposed by the sundry challenges that not only endanger their ability to discharge their duties but also affect their lives, culminating in some cases to untimely death. In a statement signed by the President Mosna Issa, the Guild aligned with the UN and all the world bodies in calling for the release of all journalists in detention. It says in Nigeria several journalists have suffered harassment, some detained arbitrarily while some were murdered in cold blood by unknown assailants. The World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1993 following the recommendation of UNESCO's General Conference.