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 wildfire in the Social Media space. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5687,6724,6725],"class_list":["post-12901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-fake-news","tag-peaceful-nigeria","tag-taiwo-olapade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12903,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12901\/revisions\/12903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}