Mr Mohammed said the information and Culture ministry needs more funding to aid the fight against fake news, disinformation and hate speech.
Nigeria’s Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, has said his ministry needs more funds to aid the fight against fake news, disinformation and hate speech.
The minister was reacting to the recent security alert raised by the US, UK and other foreign missions in Nigeria – which he said gave “the nation’s economy a devastating blow.” “The Ministry is even more incapacitated from discharging its basic functions of getting Nigerians informed at all times as regards position of government on burning issues through yearly budgetary cuts,” he said.The minister said the yearly budgetary cuts saddens him because it gets worse by the day.
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