Award winning Media personality Linda Ikeji has stirred reactions on Social media from angry Nigerians who read a story on her blog only to find out the news was fake, Withinnigeria reports.
The blog had published an MTN building being razed by fire in Lagos on Tuesday,in the wake of reactions to the South African xenophobic attack on Nigerians.
Social media users however discovered that the picture showing the structure belonging to the mobile network, was reported by Nairaland in 2015 as a building that caught fire in Ilorin, Kwara state.
This act made fans call for the withdrawal of Linda’s journalism licence or better still, her media platform be shutdown.
This did not go down well at all, as Linda had given fans a hard pill to swallow. Some Nigerians said she should be arrested while others stated that it was after the blog published the story that angry youths started destroying any outlet belonging to South Africans, thereby she used her platform to influence violence due to wrong information.
Twitter users also said Linda Ikeji has gone too far this time and that Linda Ikeji instigated violent act.
Others condemned the report and that in a sane country with good law, Linda Ikeji would’ve been arrested by now and her journalism license would’ve been withdrawn for misleading the public, inaccurate information and instigation of violence amongst the public. She should be convicted of treasonable felony, the angry Nigerians said.
The angry Nigerians however admonished National Union of Journalist NUJ to withdrawn her license and regulatory bodies be on their toes.
