Tag: Social Media
Social media as ‘Big Brother’
Lekan Sote
Eric Blair, or George Orwell if you like, predicted in his book, “Nineteen Eighty Four: A Novel,” written in 1948, but published in...
Elite, masses, warehouses and their wares
Sola Akinyede
With the #EndSARS protests and the ensuing unfortunate destruction, the looting and the raiding of warehouses housing Covid-19 palliatives and other food items,...
No intention to shut down social media- FG
The federal government has said that it does not any plan to shut down the social media but to regulate it in a manner...
Lekki tollgate shooting: Lagos State government invited us – Army
After trying unsuccessfully to deny its involvement in the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos, the 81 Division of...
The day after victory
Oluwadele Bolutife
The boisterous narratives that have enveloped social media since the ‘history’ making outcome of the elections in Edo State are very resounding.
For simple...
Imam who mistakenly married a man charged to court
Sheikh Mohammed Mutumba of Kyampisi Masjid Noor Mosque in
Kayunga District, Uganda who was earlier reported to have ‘mistakenly’ married
a man has been charged to...
INTERPOL detains Edo commissioner in France for alleged $2m laundering
Operatives of Interpol have arrested the Edo State commissioner
for arts, culture and tourism, Mr Osaze Osemwingie-Ero, for alleged money
laundering.
The commissioner was reportedly arrested and...
Social media users ask mum to kill one-month-old baby over birthmarks
A Russian woman, Maria Khvostantseva, 22, has revealed how social media users urged her to kill her one-month-old baby, Vika because she had birthmarks...
Plan to regulate social media space in the works – FG
The federal government has said that it would regulate the social
media space because it has gone out of control.
The minister of information and culture,...
Social media reactions to postponement of elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had with
less than six hours to the commencement of voting in the presidential and
national assembly elections on February...