The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government has asked the House of Representatives to enact a law to regulate social and online media in Nigeria.The minister pushed for this at a public hearing organised by the lawmakers on Wednesday through its House Committee on Information, National Orientation, Ethics, and Values.
But Mohammed said, “I want to add here specifically that internet broadcasting and all online media should be included in this because we have a responsibility to monitor contents, including Twitter.” Despite pressure from within Nigeria and internationally on the Buhari government to reverse the ban, it has refused to do so. They asked the House Committee to make NBC more independent of the information ministry.
The bill which is going for public reading is an “Act for the Amendment of the National Broadcasting Commission Act, CAP N11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010 to strengthen the commission and make it more effective for the commission to regulate broadcasting in Nigeria and for related matters.”
We have a common enemy, but we are fighting our selves and the enemies are the sponsors, when will the people of Nigeria wake up from foolishness. A poor Fulani man fighting a poor Yoruba man, a poor and helpless police officer fighting a poor Igbo man, vice versa.
IF this becomes real, all social media will be forced to get a license. Then y'all will have to pay a fee to use them. ☹️
Nigerian Government Desperate To Suppress Social Media that have killed hundreds of Nigerians but never desperate to suppress Killer herdsmen, Islamic Bandits and Boko Haram who have spread peaceful killings & kidnappings with their captives
They use it for propaganda to beat PDP …they know the power of internet…But they can’t win on this…
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