Be warned: this piece is not for hypocrites. If you are one, sign off. It is written: “Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed.” Yes, I may want to join the Afrocentric bandwagon and begin to lob rude and angry expletives on President Donald Trump, but because Africa is yet to weave its spell of greatness on me, I will not speak evil of POTUS. I will not be counted among the self-righteous mobsters who are defending Mother Africa from a man known for racist slur, bigotry, extremist views and for his preference for eugenics.
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All online voice and video call services like Microsoft’s Skype, Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger, and Rakuten’s Viber, which satisfy regulatory requirements, were set to become accessible overnight.
He said: “I support monitoring of the social media by the security agencies to control negative stories that can influence the lives of unsuspecting subscribers to do the wrong thing they never intended to do.
She came into the limelight after featuring in a popular United Nations Population Fund-sponsored sitcom: “I Need to Know’’, which ran from 1998 to 2002.
Dr Garba Abari, the Director-General, NOA made this known at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja on the rising wave of hate messages in circulation.
The call was made on Thursday in Lagos at the maiden rendezvous of the Network for Media Excellence, a group promoting professionalism in the Nigerian media.
Ajia, a former Communication for Development Specialist at the United Nations, said this on Saturday at the 21st Annual Lecture of Ijebu Muslim College Old Students’ Association in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
Abubakar expressed the feeling in Sokoto on Sunday at the closing ceremony of the 6th National Edition of the Quranic Recitation Competition.
Abari stated this position in Abuja while condemning the upsurge in hate speeches and divisive comments, which tend to divide Nigerians along ethnic and religious affiliations, adding that our diversity as a nation is always a strength.
“This opportunity is for us to discourse the ills that affects the social media.”
The government’s position was stated on Monday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Adamu said this at the celebration of this year’s World Health Day on Friday in Abuja
Speaking as a Guest Lecturer at the Air War College in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, Yushau Shuaib, the brain behind the 2016 Global Award winner in Crisis Communication and expert in social media, pointed out that the battle ground has shifted from physical combat to cyberspace where social media is the tool of engagement
Adeyeye, in a lecture entitled: “The Electronic Media as a Tool for Healthcare’’ urged medical practitioners to take advantage of the social media to enhance healthcare services
A majority of Nigerians who have access to social media go online every single day, and almost constantly. With computers and laptops at work, tablets at home, and smartphones in their pockets or within reach throughout the day, they are always connected
The lawmaker said Nigeria lacked a legal framework for the protection of internet users, in spite of being a subscriber to international charters, which recognised freedom and access to the Internet as a human right
The kind of new English being written by Twitter and WhatsApp users, particularly young people, is however so frightening and lamentable, because it is beginning to creep into regular writing
But while this desire engulfs the outside world, same cannot be said of the citizens and residents of the country who continue to lament over its socio-economic woes of dilapidated infrastructure, epileptic power supply and decades of failed and buried campaign promises
Senator Dino Melaye, coming through a point of order during plenary, expressed dissatisfaction with the abuse of the social media by some online publishers whom he said have sold their “conscience”
According to the bill, any person who through text messages, tweets, What’sApp or any of the social media posts any abusive statement knowing same to be false with intent to set the public against any person and/or group of persons, an institution or Government or such other bodies established by law shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction shall be liable to an imprisonment for two years or a fine of N2 million or both such fine and imprisonment