MEDIA

The Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Is’haq Modibbo Kawu says the Nigerian broadcasting industry is one of the leading employers of labour in the country as ...

Aisha Buhari has called for social media’s regulation – She said since China successfully did it, then Nigeria too can do such – The first lady disclosed this ...

Sen. Mohammed Musa (APC- Niger), has urged Nigerians to support the social media bill before the National Assembly because it was aimed at protecting human dignity. Musa said ...

Google will no longer allow political advertisers to target voters based on their political affiliation, the company announced Wednesday, in a move that will increase pressure on Facebook to limit ...

The Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill also known as the Social Media Bill has passed second reading in the Senate. The bill on Wednesday passed second ...

The free version of Amazon’s music-streaming service is now available across more platforms, bolstering competition with Spotify’s free tier. Starting Monday, Amazon said, customers, can now listen to Amazon ...

Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the current administration might be plotting a third term agenda. According to PUNCH, Falana said this in Lagos while speaking at the ...

Facebook on Wednesday said it has taken down some 5.4 billion fake accounts this year in a sign of the persistent battle on social media against manipulation and ...

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has rejected the proposed social media regulation and advised the federal government to drop the proposed regulation of social media. In a ...

The Federal Government says it has commenced the process of injecting sanity into the social media space to prevent it from setting the nation on fire. The Minister ...

Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages “should be earned, not bought”. “While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very ...

Facebook said Wednesday it had taken down accounts linked to a Russian ally of President Vladimir Putin seeking to spread disinformation on the social network in eight African ...

Nigerian civil society leaders and activists have asked the government to ensure the safety of Fisayo Soyombo, the undercover journalist who exposed the rot in the Nigerian prison ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that a committee has been set up to implement the recommendations approved by President Muhammadu Buhari on ...

Twitter on Tuesday apologized after “inadvertently” using phone numbers and email addresses for advertising even though the personal data was provided for account security. Twitter users’ phone numbers and email ...

Kiki Mordi, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) investigative journalist that uncovered the sexual harassment in universities has revealed that she has received subtle threats since the report went ...

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts, pages and groups from its social network platforms that the company says were involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour. The tech giant said ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has sanctioned about 45 broadcasting stations and cautioned producers of the reality television programme, Big Brother Naija (BBN) against broadcasting “unwholesome content” in ...

Femi Atoyebi & Co, solicitors acting on behalf of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has written a petition to Google Nigeria demanding the suspension of a video published by Roots ...

The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter had his own account on the service briefly taken over by hackers. A group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad ...