Ogun, other states wage war against fake news, as content creators spread terror

As insecurity grips Nigeria, Ogun State is battling a unsafe caller frontier of terror, 1 manufactured not by bandits successful the bushes, but by contented creators down smartphone screens. 

Across the state, a deluge of societal media content, fabricated WhatsApp dependable notes, and recycled videos are weaponizing nationalist anxiousness and fueling panic.

In this report, Gift Oba exposes however the hopeless pursuit for integer clout is disrupting nationalist peace, mimicking nationalist trauma, and landing its perpetrators successful handcuffs.

The Tailor Who Stitched Terror

On Monday, May 18, 2026, 25-year-old Kowiu Oloyede woke up arsenic conscionable an mean tailor trying to marque a surviving successful the Atan country of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area. By noon, however, helium had stitched unneurotic a cloth of panic that threw an full state, and the federation into panic.

Armed with thing but a smartphone and a chaotic imagination, Oloyede manufactured a fake video claiming that equipped bandits had invaded his community. 

He posted the clip connected his TikTok page, “Nice Boy,” showing himself successful a bush with gunshot sounds playing successful the background. The caption connected the video reads: “Bandit is successful Atan, assistance america ooo.” Within seconds, the video went viral.

What Oloyede thought was a harmless net prank rapidly transformed into a nationalist information nightmare. Driven by a desper...