2016 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX

1Finland 8.59
2Netherlands 8.76
3Norway 8.79
4Denmark8.89
5New Zealand 10.01
6Costa Rica 11.10
7Switzerland 11.76
8Sweden 12.33
9Ireland 12.40
10Jamaica 12.45
11Austria 13.18
12Slovakia 13.26
13Belgium 14.18
14Estonia 14.31
15Luxembourg 14.43
16Germany 14.80
17Namibia 15.15
18Canada 15.26
19Iceland 15.30
20Uruguay 15.88
21Czech Republic 16.66
22Surinam 16.70
23Portugal 17.27
24Latvia 17.38
25Australia 17.84
26Ghana 17.95
27Cyprus 18.26
28Liechtenstein18.36
29Samoa 18.80
30OECS18.91
31Chile 19.23
32Cape Verde 19.82
33Andorra19.87
34Spain 19.92
35Lithuania 19.95
36Belize 20.61
37Tonga 21.24
38United Kingdom 21.70
39South Africa 21.92
40Slovenia22.26
41United States 22.49
42Burkina Faso 22.66
43Botswana 22.91
44Trinidad and Tobago 23.29
45France23.83
46Malta 23.84
47Poland 23.89
48Mauritania 24.03
49Romania 24.29
50Comores 24.33
51Taiwan 24.37
52Niger 24.62
53Haïti 24.66
54Argentina 25.09
55Papua New Guinea 25.81
56Madagascar 27.04
57Guyana 27.07
58Salvador 27.20
59Serbia 27.60
60Mongolia 27.61
61Mauritius 27.69
62Dominican Republic 27.90
63Croatia 27.91
64Georgia 27.96
65Senegal 27.99
66Malawi 28.12
67Hungary 28.17
68Bosnia-Herzegovina 28.45
69Hong Kong 28.50
70South Korea 28.58
71Tanzania 28.65
72Japan 28.67
73Lesotho 28.78
74Armenia 28.79
75Nicaragua 28.82
76Moldova 28.83
77Italy 28.93
78Benin 28.97
79Guinea Bissau 29.03
80Fiji29.37
81Northern Cyprus29.54
82Albania 29.92
83Sierra Leone 29.94
84Peru 29.99
85Kyrgyzstan 30.16
86Ivory Coast30.17
87Mozambique 30.25
88Togo 30.31
89Greece 30.35
90Kosovo 30.50
91Panama 30.59
92Seychelles 30.60
93Liberia 30.71
94Bhutan 30.73
95Kenya 31.16
96Tunisia 31.60
97Bolivia 31.78
98Lebanon 31.95
99East Timor 32.02
100Gabon 32.20
101Israel 32.58
102Uganda 32.58
103Kuwait 32.59
104Brazil 32.62
105Nepal 32.62
106Montenegro 32.79
107Ukraine 32.93
108Guinea 33.08
109Ecuador 33.21
110Central African Republic33.60
111Paraguay 33.63
112Maldives 34.17
113Bulgaria 34.46
114Zambia 35.08
115Congo-Brazzaville35.84
116Nigeria 35.90
117Qatar35.97
118Macedonia 36.09
119United Arab Emirates 36.73
120Afghanistan 37.75
121Guatemala 38.03
122Mali 39.83
123Angola 39.89
124Zimbabwe 40.41
125Oman 40.43
126Cameroon 40.53
127Chad 40.59
128Cambodia 40.70
129Algeria 41.69
130Indonesia 41.72
131Morocco 42.64
132Palestine42.93
133India 43.17
134Colombia 44.11
135Jordan 44.49
136Thailand 44.53
137Honduras 44.62
138Philippines 44.66
139Venezuela 44.77
140South Sudan 44.87
141Sri Lanka 44.96
142Ethiopia 45.13
143Burma 45.48
144Bangladesh 45.94
145Gambia 46.53
146Malaysia 46.57
147Pakistan 48.52
148Russia 49.03
149Mexico 49.33
150Tajikistan 50.34
151Turkey 50.76
152DRC50.97
153Swaziland 52.37
154Singapore 52.96
155Brunei 53.85
156Burundi 54.10
157Belarus 54.32
158Iraq 54.35
159Egypt 54.45
160Kazakhstan 54.55
161Rwanda 54.61
162Bahrain 54.86
163Azerbaijan 57.89
164Libya 57.89
165Saudi Arabia 59.72
166Uzbekistan 61.15
167Somalia 65.35
168Equatorial Guinea 66.47
169Iran 66.52
170Yemen 67.07
171Cuba 70.23
172Djibouti 70.90
173Laos 71.58
174Sudan 72.53
175Vietnam 74.27
176China 80.96
177Syria 81.35
178Turkmenistan 83.44
179North Korea 83.76
180Eritrea 83.92

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Nigeria must drag position fo underground for everything apart from bad news.

I d tire

There's a subtle difference between freedom of press and independence of press and the table above muddles them. As far as freedom of press goes, I doubt press anywhere in the world would get away with the stuff Nigeria press gets away with. Nigeria press is as free as they come in my view but not the most independent .

Litmus:
There's a subtle difference between freedom of press and independence of press and the table above muddles them. As far as freedom of press goes, I doubt press anywhere in the world would get away with the stuff Nigeria press gets away with. Nigeria press is as free as they come in my view but not the most independent .

freedom according to the report attached where I got it means freedom as to get information from the government for public consumption.

I blame Bullari