The Federal Government is planning a way on how to curtail the on-going tribalistic insults on different Social Media Platforms which is not good for the unity of Nigeria as a country.

Plans are also being tabled out on how to increase the sanctions on Websites, Blogsites, Forums ,FB pages, etc that Posts FALSIFIED

INFORMATIONS.

Committee is already being set to look into the issue and come up with an overall masterplan before the proposed Handover date.






Source. www.Leadership.ng/fg-to-enforce-laws-to-stop-social-network-abuses

Decree 4?

if i hear

Sauce

Not now for what goes round comes round

Long overdue, I was expecting this

Why now....the incoming Government must experience what the outgoing gov went through....

Why now? Better after May 29, 2019

They should rather not try it. In fact we shall resist it... Jonathan, please just leave social media to us biko... Buhari's administration will need our "service".

Baba one chance shouldn't try that rubbish or else...

they should allow the incoming govt to feel the same heat they steamed up agains the current govt.

Lol On to wetin, so I can't express my feeling with my own 10mb again abi

ki02020:
Lol On to wetin, so I can't express my feeling with my own 10mb again abi

Hahaha... our 100 bucs will not go in vain.

Ah ah, Another Committee?

The FG should hold on for now... The Social Media would play a major role in paying the CHANGE agents back in their own coin. The next four years would be interesting.

buhari is scared of criticism and insults should he fail.nigeria back to demomiltary rule.smh

stepo707:
buhari is scared of criticism and insults should he fail.nigeria back to demomiltary rule.smh

Is buhari the president?

Obiagelli:

Is buhari the president?

Story.gej never complained throughout all his days as president.am pretty sure its buhari that is behind this

Unfortunately my thread was washed away by the nairaland data loss tsunami.

[size=14pt]Maku urges Commission to regulate operations of social media bloggers[/size]

By Daily Post Staff on February 11, 2014

Information Minister Labaran Maku on Tuesday urged the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to monitor the operations of social media in Nigeria, ahead of the 2015 elections.

Maku said this in Abuja at a forum on broadcast media coverage of the 2015 election, jointly organised by the NBC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He said that there was a lot of negative and untrue information that had been disseminated by some internet bloggers that could destabilise the polity.

“One other place we need to watch is the social media blogs.

“We need to call some of the social media blog owners, sit with them; some of the messages we see on the social media are very harmful.

“We need to re-examine what we are doing there; social media is a source for good.

“We are using them to reach the masses but we must also develop an attitude to ensure that whatever goes in there will promote the development of our country,’’ he said.

Maku pointed out that as the electioneering period drew nearer, politicians and their supporters would likely explore available media of information dissemination to spread messages that were inimical to development.

He urged the media to increasingly deploy its gate-keeping responsibility in the reportage of political activities.

He appealed to newsmen to down play reports that could cause anarchy and crisis in the society.

Maku reminded them of their responsibility to maintain harmony in the aftermath of the 2015 election saying that its success depended largely on the media.

Earlier, former Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Mohammed Uwais, stressed that newsmen had a constitutional responsibility to ensure harmony in the polity both before and after the elections.

Uwais said that practitioners and media proprietors should put aside their interests and biases for the good of the country in the forthcoming elections.

“The media provide the platform for public debates, dissemination of information, expression of opinion on political and social issues, setting agenda on societal issues and enlightenment.

“Therefore, the role of the media is critical in facilitating the participation of citizens in public discourse.

“ If properly employed, the media will contribute to the development of a consensus on national issues.

“There are numerous legislations and professional precepts that made provisions on the role of the Nigerian media in our electoral process,’’ he said.

In his address, the NBC Director-General, Mr Emeka Mba, said that the forum was organised to provide a road map on the coverage of the 2015 elections.

He said that the forum would equip media professionals and their employers with the necessary background on how to approach issues relating to the elections.

http://dailypost.ng/2014/02/11/maku-urges-commission-regulate-operations-social-media-bloggers/