The Federal Government is set to amend its relevant statutes and code to enforce the operational conditions of Twitter in Nigeria on other social media platforms.
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed made this known in Cairo at a meeting with his counterpart, Egypt Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Amir Talaat.
He said Nigeria was amending its National Broadcasting Act and Broadcasting Code to ensure that all online platforms operating in the country must comply with stipulated conditions.
The meeting was on the sidelines of a bilateral discussion with Africa Export Import Bank, AFREXIMBANK on how Nigeria can access funding to support its growing creative industry.
It would be recalled that the Minister had led some private sector stakeholders involved in Digital Switch Over, DSO, to AFREXIMBANK to assist them on how they can source fund to complete the wholly private sector financially driven project.
Also speaking, the Egyptian Minister said his country had similar challenges in the area of dissemination of policies and programmes of government. Talaat.said he was a recent victim of fake news report which was very devastating to him.
