Dubbed: “Lekki Massacre,” PRNigeria reports that the incident, which occurred on October 20, 2020, is fraught of a lot of misinformation, disinformation and fake news, to which a lot of reputable local and international media organisations were found culpable, including CNN itself and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Taiwo made the disclosure on Saturday while being cross-examined at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters.
AbdulRasaq made this call in Ilorin on Wednesday during the 2020 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kwara council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
The Governors, under the aegis of the Northern Governors’ Forum, spoke on Monday in Kaduna at their meeting.
Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, stated this at a media parley with international journalists organized by Presidential Media Team at the old Banquet Hall of the State House, Abuja, on Monday.
It said its plan is to regulate social media to be responsible and refrain from being purveyor of fake news and hate speech.
Speaking on the impact of fake news in the #EndSARS protests last week, they also called on the government to introduce laws to punish perpetrators of fake news.
They spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Wednesday against the mayhem that followed #EndSARS protests, which was largely propelled by fake news.
In the last one decade of my life as a humanitarian worker and crisis communicator, working closely with the media, the security and response agencies, I have found out that many crises situations are triggered by reckless statements, irresponsible behaviours and unnecessary confrontations.
According to reports in the Middle East picked up by British tabloid The Sun, World Cup winner Pogba wanted to end his international career after Macron vowed to take the fight to Islamic radicals after the October 16 beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty.
Ponle gave the charge on Monday when he received a delegation of the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, which paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja.
The Founder and Director of MURIC, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said this in a statement on Tuesday.
The Presidency said this on Wednesday in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, on the reported absorption of repentant Boko Haram terrorists into the Military.
Mustapha stated this at the daily briefing of the PTF on Thursday in Abuja.
The institution’s Director of University Relations, Abdulrazaq Sanni, stated this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Ilorin.
Alhaji Abdullahi Maikanti, Chairman, Hadejia Local Government Council in Jigawa State, has described as fake the media reports claiming that 100 persons recently died of a mysterious illness in the area.
Alhaji Monsurudeen Bello, the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, on Thursday debunked the rumour of his death, saying it is a case of mistaken identity.
The Association of Psychiatrists of Nigeria on Tuesday said fake news on COVID-19 pandemic could cause significant emotional distress to Nigerians and increase the rate of mental health problems in the country.
One would ordinarily have dismissed the “controversy” around 5G technology and the strange connection with COVID-19 being stridently pursued by some people as ignorant rants occasioned by the morbid fear of the rampaging Coronavirus, but with the prevailing circumstances of fear and tension, I have elected, as one familiar with the workings of the telecommunications industry, to say something.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has denied testing positive to the Coronavirus Disease.