The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the police cybercrime unit, the National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC), to clamp down on purveyors of fake...
The National Judicial Council (NJC), on Friday, said no date has been fixed for the swearing-in of the newly appointed 11 Justices of the Supreme Court....
The Osun State Police Command has warned the people of the state against disseminating fake news ahead of Saturday’s governorship and state house of assembly elections....
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has accused opposition parties of deploying fake news as campaign tools against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Thursday assured that the results of the general elections in 2023 will be decided by...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday warned politicians to eschew violence as preparations for the 2023 general elections reach a crucial stage. The ex-president, who made...
The Presidency has warned citizens against indiscriminate posts on social media so as to deny vested interests the opportunity to split the country. Following the viral...
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has slammed the Presidency’s claims that it is pressuring a section of Nigerians to leave the country as false. According to...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has detailed the rationale behind the fight against fake news and hate speech. Mohammed spoke on Thursday during...
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has charged media organisations to tackle the menace of fake news capable of destabilising the country. Bello made the call at...
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commits (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, on Sunday blamed most of the country’s challenges on fake news peddled by...
The Federal Government has raised the alarm over the use of what it called “deep” fake news to attack its officials. The Minister of Information and...
The Nigeria Navy (NN) has described as ”fake” a purported list of supplementary candidates in its recruitment from a particular section of the country trending online....
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Monday the Federal Government has uncovered over 400 websites managed by purveyors of fake news. The...
Seyi, son of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, has dismissed as a fake report, claim that his father had contracted COVID-19 and currently...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Friday charged local broadcast stations to always take the lead in presenting authentic narrative on national...
Self acclaimed ‘African Giant’, Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy has taken a swipe at the Federal Government of Nigeria for alleging that he was one of...
IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, rapper, Folarin Falana aka Falz and self acclaimed ‘African Giant’ Burna Boy and others have been accused of using fake news to...
A university lecturer, Dr. Kola Adeshina has advocated for a United Nations charter that will tackle the abuse of social media across the world. He, however,...
Guinea’s opposition has denounced what it called a large-scale fraud aimed at preventing it from winning Sunday’s presidential election and returning President Alpha Condé for a...
A professor of Broadcast Management and Media Law, Tony Iredia, said on Wednesday the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has hijacked the duties of...
Aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, has said that Nigeria had become the headquarters of dissemination of fake news. Onochie was reacting to the news...
The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has denied he banned two journalists for life from covering and reporting state functions. The governor was heavily criticised...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said on Friday that the rising spate of fake news and misinformation despite repeated caution by government, is...
As part of the efforts to halt the spread of fake news surrounding coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it was partnering with Whatsapp...
The Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Sunday, described the reported attack on his convoy as another fake news peddled by members of the Peoples Democratic...
It was robustly announced that an Italian suspected to be a carrier of the dreaded Coronavirus had been quarantined. The Lagos State Government, through its Commissioner...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has denied claims that it will soon introduce new regulations to monitor phone calls and trawl through what Nigerians do on...
The Ondo State Police Command has arraigned a pastor, John Abiodun and a university Lecturer, Dr. Lanre Olu-Adeyemi before an Ondo State High Court sitting in...
Perhaps, no other story attracted as much attention last week as the drama orchestrated by the Department of State Security (DSS), an agency under the watchful...
A former lawmaker –turned social critic, Shehu Sani, on Friday reacted angrily to the Federal Government’s recent attempts to trample on the rights of the citizens....
Dartmouth engineering researchers have developed a new approach for detecting a speaker’s intent to mislead. The approach’s framework, which could be developed to extract opinion from...
The Federal Government on Tuesday rolled out new measures to check the spread of fake news and hate speech in the country. The Minister of Information...
For the umpteenth time, the Federal Government on Sunday vowed to deal with purveyors of fake news and hate speech in the country. The Minister of...
A Lagos based activist and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has apologised to the 2019 presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu,...
The Presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) in the 2019 general elections, Kingsley Moghalu has demanded a public apology from Femi Falana (SAN), for...
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has knocked the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for the fresh charges filed against the detained convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore. The Nigerian...
Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has warned social media users both in and outside the state, saying he would not compromise to prosecute people that peddle...
The industry body representing Google, Facebook and Twitter has rejected proposals for an industry code of conduct on fake news, warning that the recommendation would turn...
YouTube has disabled 210 channels that appeared to be part of a coordinated influence campaign against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The action by the Google-owned...
In his usual style of drawing the attention of the Presidency and Nigerians to sensitive and critical national issues drowning the country, former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
President Muhammadu Buhari, while speaking on the practice of journalism in the country, regretted the use of technology for instigating violence and hate. He made this...
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has threatened to imprison journalists who misinterpret proceedings in the trial of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has blamed the prevalence of fake news in the country for the outbreak of violence during the conduct...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has advised the public to disregard different results of elections that have been circulating on social media The commission insists...
Justice John Tsoho of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday gave an order restraining the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), the Department...
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and the Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, have dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to court over threats to...
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, sagas said the “biggest opposition” the Nigerian military faces is probably the social media, and not Boko Haram. Segun...
StanbicIBTC bank recently facilitated the training of 25 Nigerian journalists drawn from across online and traditional media outfits in Lagos. The programme focused primarily on equipping...
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, says fake news and hate speech constitute the biggest threat to the 2019 polls. Mohammed said this on Thursday...
