Tag Archives: Social Media

The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 81 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Lawrence Fejokwu on Friday warned troops of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment to desist from posting of unauthorized, classified information and pictures on social media.

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Media Rights Agenda (MRA) yesterday has accused the Federal Government of hopelessly losing its way, and called on it to abandon its fruitless preoccupation with controlling social media content in Nigeria. It urged the Government to retrace its steps by focusing on its primary purpose, which is ensuring the security and welfare of the people. Citing Section 14(2)(b) of the …

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An ex-convict, Surajudeen Adeleke Balogun has been arrested by men of the Ogun State police command for impersonating an Ogun State Director of Finance on Facebook. The suspect, a fashion designer from Ijebu Ode in Ogun State posed on Facebook as a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) staff with the picture of the said Finance Director through …

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The Partnership for Media and Democracy (PAMED) has called on the Federal Government to restrain the Nigerian Army from monitoring the social media activities of Nigerians, describing the action as a violation of the rights of Nigerians to freedom of expression and the privacy of their communications guaranteed by the Constitution and international human rights instruments to which Nigeria is …

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