The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has urged the House of Representatives to include regulation of Twitter in the National Broadcasting Commission Act.

The Minister made the call at the public hearing on a bill to amend the NBC Act organised by the House Committee on Information.

The call by Mohammed is coming on the heels of the restriction of Twitter by the federal government.

“I will want to add, that specifically, internet broadcasting and all online media should be included in this because we have responsibility to monitor content— including Twitter,” he said.

The recommendation by the Minister was opposed by others who spoke at the hearing.

The Executive Director of the Institute of Media and Societies, Akin Akingulu lamented the lack of independence for NBC.

He called for more powers to be stripped from the Minister of Information and the independence of NBC should be guaranteed.

Akingulu also called for the confirmation of the Director-General of the NBC by the National Assembly.

He noted that the inclusion of Twitter and others as “categories of broadcasting services licences will be injurious to the civics space, freedom of expression and media freedom in Nigeria.”

uptimumOne23:
Make them pass am fast fast jare

Another is the prosecution of those still using Twitter... They need to start eating watery beans in the prison.

valentineuwakwe:
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has urged the House of Representatives to include regulation of Twitter in the National Broadcasting Commission Act.

The Minister made the call at the public hearing on a bill to amend the NBC Act organised by the House Committee on Information.

The call by Mohammed is coming on the heels of the restriction of Twitter by the federal government.

“I will want to add, that specifically, internet broadcasting and all online media should be included in this because we have responsibility to monitor content— including Twitter,” he said.

The recommendation by the Minister was opposed by others who spoke at the hearing.

The Executive Director of the Institute of Media and Societies, Akin Akingulu lamented the lack of independence for NBC.

He called for more powers to be stripped from the Minister of Information and the independence of NBC should be guaranteed.

Akingulu also called for the confirmation of the Director-General of the NBC by the National Assembly.

He noted that the inclusion of Twitter and others as “categories of broadcasting services licences will be injurious to the civics space, freedom of expression and media freedom in Nigeria.”

Source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/16/nbc-act-regulate-all-online-broadcasters-including-twitter-lai-mohammed-tells-lawmakers/

slivertongue:
incompetent govt . so twitter is the cause of BH and herdsmen? dot brain kawai

BabaOneChance:
Cost of living keeps going high, food items rising, people are barely feeding, graduates are running around in search of jobs, Fulani herdsmen are invading private properties and killing harmless indigenes, houses are burning, insecurity everywhere...YET Liar Mohammed ONLY concern is Twitter.

Twitter will soon give this man migraine.

Ikillbrokehoes:
Zone bee

uptimumOne23:


Body dey pain you

valentineuwakwe:

The recommendation by the Minister was opposed by others who spoke at the hearing.

The Executive Director of the Institute of Media and Societies, Akin Akingulu lamented the lack of independence for NBC.

He called for more powers to be stripped from the Minister of Information and the independence of NBC should be guaranteed.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/16/nbc-act-regulate-all-online-broadcasters-including-twitter-lai-mohammed-tells-lawmakers/

The gagging of the social media has finally began!

They wants to turn the social media to NTA that no one now watches or listens to

Where are our information gurus

If we accept, Nigeria is finished!!!

fitzmayowa:
Lai Muhammed needs to checked into yaba, it seems this twitter issue is driving nuts, he keeps yapping over the already and twitter at every opportunity he gets....

BabaOneChance:
Cost of living keeps going high, food items rising, people are barely feeding, graduates are running around in search of jobs, Fulani herdsmen are invading private properties and killing harmless indigenes, houses are burning, insecurity everywhere...YET Liar Mohammed ONLY concern is Twitter.

Twitter will soon give this man migraine.