{"id":34822,"date":"2021-05-17T20:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=34822"},"modified":"2021-05-17T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:55:53","slug":"weve-uncovered-476-online-sites-set-up-to-fight-buharis-govt-%e2%80%95-lai-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/weve-uncovered-476-online-sites-set-up-to-fight-buharis-govt-%e2%80%95-lai-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve uncovered 476 online sites set up to fight Buhari\u2019s govt \u2015 Lai Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government says it has uncovered about 476 online publication sites dedicated to daily churning out of fake news to fight the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja when he received officials of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations on a courtesy visit<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said the latest of the hatchet jobs by the traducers was the fake publication on President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s mental status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will amaze you that recently we unveiled almost 476 online publication sites that are dedicated to daily engaging in churning out fake news to fight the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest which I found ridiculous is the one that said days ago, that they had information that when Mr President was in the UK the last time, he was advised to step down because he could not even recognise members of his immediate family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI begin to wonder how they can go this far, simply because they know that people are gullible and they will make the fake news to go viral,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister noted that fake news is taking a new dimension and threatening the existence of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said the debilitating effects of the menace was not only on the government but on every Nigerian.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed noted that many marriages had been wrecked as a result of fake news, particularly through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/26\/social-media-spiritualist-jailed-for-defrauding-american\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> while people had lost their lives and many others committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>To buttress his position, the minister recalled a recent report where fake news almost led to the killing of 600 applicants by scammers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA young man sent out letters to 600 people to enlist into Nigerian Army and collected N10,000 from each of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked them to report at the Okitipupa Army Barracks in Ondo state on a particular day to collect their letters of appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, he alerted the Commandant of the Barrack that Boko Haram insurgents were coming to invade the barrack on the same day,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said his ministry had spearheaded the campaign against fake news years back before the menace got so bad.<\/p>\n<p>He said the NIPR had a critical role to play in ensuring the fight against fake news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where your body comes in because you have a powerful platform to ensure that the menace of fake news is confronted squarely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, however, members of this institute have been found wanting, they have most times place pecuniary interest and motives above patriotism and nationalism<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will recall the sad incidence of the P&amp;ID saga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a member of this institute, a firm of PR consultants that was hired to give impression to the world that Nigeria entered into agreement with P&amp;ID and renege and have to pay about nine billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took the combine interventions of this ministry and the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation to go to the UK to change the narrative to prove that the purported contract was a huge scam,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister admonished members of the institute to place nationalism and patriotism over and above pecuniary gains in the discharge of their duties.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured NIPR of the support of the ministry in its proposed plan to use its platform to engender stakeholders interaction and engagement on national security and cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Malam Mukhtar Sirajo, the National President and Chairman, Governing Council of NIPR said they were willing to work with the Federal Government to engender peace and unity.<\/p>\n<p>He also seized the opportunity to invite the minister to the Annual General Meeting of the Institute holding in Bauchi in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government says it has uncovered about 476 online publication sites dedicated to daily churning out of fake news to fight the government. 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