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The federal government has expressed strong disapproval of the unverified security alert recently issued on Nigeria by certain embassies in the country.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, condemned the act on Tuesday in Abuja at a ministerial panel of the on-going UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Week.
The minister also criticised the Nigerian media outlets and social media personalities for spreading the security alerts without verifying its authenticity and consequences.
Mr Mohammed was a panelist at the UNESCO session with the topic, “National Media and Information Literacy Frameworks, Sustaining Beyond Disinformation’’ moderated by Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO.
Other discussants on the panel are Nigeria Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah and UK Minister of Tech and Digital Economy, Damian Collins, who…
