The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has stated that the federal government will be moving on with its plan to regulate social media. .
Lai Mohammed who disclosed this weeks after he denied the existence of a bill for the regulation of social media in an interview with an international news platform, said they have already contacted two major platforms; Facebook and Google. .
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He told newsmen in Abuja yesterday February 20, that their aim is to ensure that damages are not done to the country through the social media.
Nigerians were reacting differently given that recently the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed in an International Television Interview stated that there was never any plan to regulate social media as rumoured all over the world.
In a platform where the arising issue was discussed see how Nigerians react
Some called it a misplaced priority while some reminded the honourable Minister of his interview he had outside the nation denying any plan of social media regulations.