The Federal Government has rejected what it called an “unverified security alert” issued by the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom to their citizens in Nigeria through their embassies.
Information, Culture, and Tourism Minister, Lai Mohammed, who condemned the act in Abuja at a ministerial panel of the ongoing UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Week, also slammed some local media outlets and social media for spreading the security alerts without verifying their authenticity and consequences.
Mohammed was a panelist at the UNESCO session with the topic: “National Media and Information Literacy Frameworks, Sustaining Beyond Disinformation’’ moderated by the Assistant Director-General of Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO. Dr. Tawfik Jelassi.
