I am afraid of the future of this country especially with the rising uncontrolled cases of FAKE NEWS spreading like wildfire in the Social Media space.<\/p>\n
More worrisome is the ethnic and religion coloration it carries. The Government have a critical role to play in nipping this frightening development in the bud NOW before it is too late. <\/span><\/p>\n Government must demonstrate the will power by Arresting and Prosecuting purveyors of FAKE NEWS in the country to serve as deterrence to others. <\/span><\/p>\n Sadly, some of our Electronic Media have openly become partisan in their Editorial judgements, News and programmes delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n This is not the time to play politics with peace and unity of our country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nigeria MUST first exist for anyone elected or political party to govern it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Election has come and gone and for those who are dissatisfied with the outcome, the Tribunal is available for them to press home their cases with clear evidence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nigeria is yet to overcome the damage caused by the 1967-70 Civil War. We must collectively and jealousy protect the nation from slipping into any form of Civil disorder because it will do no one, tribe or religion any good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Nigeria is a great country with unlimited potentials which we have failed to harness over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is not too late for us to change the narrative in the overall benefits of all. God bless Nigeria. Amen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Taiwo Olapade, Broadcast Journalist, is based in Lagos.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am afraid of the future of this country especially with the rising uncontrolled cases of FAKE NEWS spreading like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}