The Federal Government at the weekend
Nigerians in the diaspora not to believe everything they read on the
social media about happenings in the country, saying most of what
emanated from the social media was fake news.
The Minister of Information and Culture,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the advice in a statement his Special Adviser,
Mr. Segun Adeyemi issued on Friday in Washington DC while addressing
staff of the Nigerian Embassy in the United States..
The minister said Nigerians living in the US should rely on credible sources for news from home.
He urged them to download the FGN-iAPP on their mobile devices in order to have access to authentic Nigerian news.
Mohammed said the federal government
recently launched the National Campaign against Fake News in order to
stem the spread of false and misleading information, which is capable of
threatening the peace and security of the country.
The minister, who is in the US to
interact with past and current senior US government officials and
stakeholders in the US policy on Africa, under the auspices of the think
tank Atlantic Council, said the picture being painted in some circles
of an ethno-religious crisis in Nigeria is far from the truth.
He said: “Despite such crises as the
farmers-herders clashes and communal conflicts, Nigerians – for the most
part – are living together harmoniously. Nigeria is not at war.”
Mohammed said the tempo of the killings
arising from the farmers-herders crisis is going down, and that the
government is committed to ending the incessant clashes once and for
all.
Earlier, the Nigerian Ambassador to the US, Ambassador Sylvanus Nsofor, had formally welcomed the Minister to the Embassy.
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