Kaduna backs social media regulation over insecurity concerns

Following findings of a caller peacebuilding study that identified integer platforms and competing narratives arsenic cardinal drivers of insecurity successful Northern Nigeria, the Kaduna State Government has thrown its value down stronger regularisation of societal media platforms arsenic portion of efforts to curb misinformation, combat fake quality and forestall the escalation of conflicts.

The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Malam Ahmed Maiyaki, stated this on Tuesday during the dissemination of findings from the Delimi Prosper Project astatine the Gusau Institute successful Kaduna, saying that the task was implemented nether the Strengthening Peace and Resilience successful Nigeria (SPRING) inaugural with enactment from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

The one-day lawsuit brought unneurotic authorities officials, civilian nine organisations, improvement partners and different stakeholders to reappraisal findings and recommendations from the eight-month intervention.

Maiyaki said, “The study underscored the value of evidence-based peacebuilding. Sustainable bid could lone beryllium achieved done informed interventions alternatively than assumptions.”

According to him, authorities policies and responses to struggle indispensable beryllium guided by credible information and probe susceptible of identifying the basal causes of insecurity and pathways to lasting peace.

He added, “We are rather gladsome with the study that we person seen, ...