The Director, National Broadcast Academy (NBA) Engr. Ajibola Abiola has decried the growing rate of fake news in the social and mainstream media in Nigeria, insisting that the Academy is committed to fighting menace.

In a chat with ABN TV on Wednesday, Engr. Abiola while revealing that unethical practice in the media industry can be attributed to poor regulation, he added that the NBA has concluded plans to repackage its curriculum so that much emphasis will be placed on ethics in broadcasting and news circulation.

“We believe that if people are brought to the knowledge of ethics in broadcasting, the issue of fake news will be brought to the barest minimum. If you must address a large number of persons, there are ethics you must follow and adhere to, so that you won’t just go out there and start telling people about or imagine certain things that are not there.

“So we at NBA, we are trying to make sure that all our trainees are fully imbibed with ethics of broadcasting and that is what we are doing” he said.

Source: https://www.abnews247.com/2019/09/nba-unravels-plans-to-tackle-fake-news-among-social-media-influencers-bloggers/

Too late though

Front page with a speed of light. LALA..

.are you afraid?

Rogues in suits

This will make some rumor peddlers get sense by force and stop circulating fake news everywhere.

fine if that can be done.

Harlem2:
Start with nairaland first
Tired of bloggers that construct simple sentence......

I agree

The disturbing trend now is that slay queens, breast shakers, yansh twerkers, oloshos are now calling themselves social media influencers and are writing it on their media pages. Probably because people follow them because of the nonsense they do or because people have been social-media-influenced by their nonsense

kemax11:
fine if that can be done.

It's a welcome development

Una no want us to do yahoo yahoo, u people no still want us to do blogging. Abeg which work una provide for us

Oluwasaeon:

I agree

Unfortunately it is a faceless forum

Nigerians are lovers of fake news

Nigerians like and spread any kind of news as long as it support their sentiment

start with Lai Muhammed pls

Do they mean they will stop Reno Omokri from tweeting from London or stop Sahara reporters from publishing to million of their SM followers from New York?

Remove the speck from your eyes first.

Harlem2:
Start with nairaland first
Tired of bloggers that can can't construct simple sentence......

Start with this man below please.

Translation: We want to monopolise fakenews

FarahAideed:


"That can't " you mean ? You sef don fail here oo

1/10

daddytime:


Can't

They should do it fast



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