Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on Igbo indigenes to ignore threats asking them to leave Yorubaland. Recall that in a video circulating on social media, Grandson Adeyinka, a UK-based Nigerian, called on Igbo indigenes to leave south-west states. Grandson was arrested arrest in London in 2019 for allegedly “stirring racial discrimination” against the […]
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Twitter said Friday it shut down thousands of accounts worldwide for spreading misinformation, including some artificially amplifying pro-Saudi messaging as part of a regional propaganda war. The move affected pro-Saudi accounts coming from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates directed at Qatar and Yemen, Twitter said, as well as others from China seeking to sow […]
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WhatsApp is limiting worldwide the number of times a user can forward a message to five, starting on Monday, the popular messaging service looks to fight “misinformation and rumours”, company executives said on Monday. Previously, a WhatsApp user could forward a message to 20 individuals or groups. The limit of five is in expansion of […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at a conference organised by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa on fake news recalled how fake news nearly caused a ‘rift’ in his marriage. The one-day conference on Wednesday, which marks the beginning of ‘BBC’s 50-day election conference plan’, held at the Transcorp Hotels in Abuja. At the conference, Mr […]
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The Nigerian Army has threatened to sue purveyors of fake videos and other images, in connection with the recent Boko Haram attack on troops at Metele in Borno State. It was the second response by the army in 24 hours since the attack on 18 November. The army in a Facebook post expressed concern over […]
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The Kano state command of Nigeria Police Force has arrested the administrator and members of a WhatsApp group for allegedly circulating fake news. The group was accused of spreading the picture of a woman who was accused of trafficking children in Kano. According to PRNigeria, Magaji Musa, Kano police spokesperson, said the suspects were arrested […]
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Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says fake news is the only weapon used against a performing government like theirs. The minister said this on Thursday when he visited People’s Daily newspaper in Abuja. Mohammed alleged that respectable media organisations make accusations against the president without backing their claims with evidence. He said the media is […]
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that fake news circulating in the social media is fuelling the farmers/herdsmen crises in Nigeria. In the report, the giant media organisation stated that “fake pictures circulating on social media which users are falsely claiming depict inter-communal violence are inflaming already high tensions in Nigeria.” The international media […]
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the phenomenon of fake news, if left unchecked, poses more threat to the nation than insurgency and militancy. The minister said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the seventh edition of the National Security Seminar with the theme “Consolidating on the Gains of Counter Terrorism Operations […]
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