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Mohammed, President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s head of propaganda and state-sponsored disinformation, says his perennial agitation for social media clampdown in Nigeria is to prevent another global war.

On Monday, Mr Mohammed, who has called for social media to be regulated in Nigeria, insisted that the platforms spread fake information, Stechitegist.com gathered.

“With fake news today and misinformation — I have always said here that the next world war will be caused by fake news,” he said while defending his ministry’s 2022 budget before the house of representatives committee on information, national orientation.

While recounting the means of disseminating information decades ago, the minister explained that Nigerians had deserted the old means by embracing the “unseen enemy,” social media.

“Information is not what it used to be, 20 to 30 years ago if the state or federal government had a television or radio and probably a newspaper, that was what we needed,” he noted.

According to Mr Mohammed, the Buhari regime will always be criticised if it refuses to take adequate measures to regulate social media content, Stechitegist.com gathered.

“The people today, they don’t read newspapers, they don’t watch television — it’s social media. And it is most expensive; the most unseen enemy, they are there every moment, and until we go to the same battlefield with them, there is nothing the government will do that will seem right,” he said.

Infamous for his propaganda, Mr Mohammed himself has been caught circulating fake news previously as opposition spokesman and now as cabinet information minister. 

Angered by Mr Mohammed’s notoriety for spreading misinformation, a lawmaker in January described the minister’s statements as “senseless and unpatriotic.”

“You can see even the U.S. that use to pride itself on the freedom of the press is now questioning the role of the social media,” he added.

Mr Mohammed had hailed former U.S. President Donald Trump for endorsing Mr Buhari’s Twitter ban on June 4.

“Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President,” Mr Trump had said after Mr Mohammed announced the ban of the social media platform primarily used to gather information and contribute to issues of national interest.

“Donald Trump has congratulated Nigeria,” Mr Mohammed said. “If that means anything, that that is what we ought to have done. But that’s just by the way.”

While defending the 2021 budget proposal of the Information sector of his ministry in October 2020, Mr Mohammed had reasoned that Nigeria should also go the way of China to tackle misinformation.

“If you go to China, you cannot get Google, Facebook or Instagram, but you can only use your email because they have made sure that it is regulated,” he said.

Stating that there was an urgent need for a policy to curb fake news on social media, the minister said, “We need a social media policy that will regulate what should be said and posted and what should not.”

He added that “We also need technology and resources to dominate our social media space.’’

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A country as big as Nigeria cannot source for reasonable people that can brainstorm for solutions to our national security, economic and infrastructural problems.
What we have in our leaders is outdated are grandfathers that have nothing to offer for our betterment other than tale's by moonlight.

Alcohol influenced statement

World war3 kill you there

To slap this man mouth the hungry me.

Na bi liar Mohammed da gudun tsiya, na tatala mai mari a kyeya

Is this rvbbish this man spews everyday the reason why he's begging lawmakers not to slash his ministry's budget?

Cos, apart from talking gibberish day in and out, he's completely useless.

Minister for misinformation indeed.

Very very true. With the killings that were going on in the South East by ESN, it would have resulted to that sir.

benuejosh:
Very very true. With the killings that were going on in the South East by ESN, it would have resulted to that sir.

And the killings and beheading of women and children in your home state of Benue won't cause it

PrinceOfLagos:
And the killings and beheading of women and children in your home state of Benue won't cause it

go and ask Ortom about the killings in Benue.

For more jokes.......text world war3 to Lai Mumuhamed

Learn how to drive manual or automatic cars in few weeks time

Lai Mohammed is always talking crap. In case he hasn't noticed, Nigeria is already on a downward spiral and the international community is beginning to take note. So let Lai Mohammed stay there and keep deceiving himself. No be only world war 3. Na world war 4.

Let him go and return the 100milla campaign fund he ambushed before talking about regulating social media.

Ole

Regulated it,and let's see if you will remain in Government forever,same way you were issuing press conference everyday against PDP Government,is social media the reason why foodstuffs keep increasing in local market!!! You are busy chasing rat while your house is on fire

liar Muhammed is a Mad man & an idiot see his brown teeth like grass cutter.
Noting we will not hear from this idiots ruling us.