PRESS STATEMENT
The attention of the editors of THISDAY and ARISE Media Groups has been drawn to false claims of misrepresentation of facts by the Board and Management of First HoldCoPlc in a sponsored post in some publications in an attempt to trample on our constitutionally guaranteed free speech and the freedom of the press as the Fourth Estate of the Realm as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) under the Right to Freedom of Expression and the Press states that:
