The Presidency has directed security agencies to intensify efforts in identifying and penalizing fake news websites and individuals spreading false information, following a viral report falsely claiming the sack of Nigeria’s Ministers of Defence and Power.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Information and Strategy, condemned the report published by Phoenix Browser as “completely false, misleading, and devoid of any factual basis.”
“At no time did President Tinubu dismiss the Ministers of Defence or Power,” Onanuga said, describing the report as “reckless propaganda designed to misinform the public.”
Source: Grand News Online