Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has debunked The Minister dispelled the claim while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) daily briefing today, April 15. Lai Mohammed who urged Nigerians to discard reports which is not from He said;
“Whether members of the National Assembly are sharing N700 million, “To the best of my knowledge, I’m not aware that any such money has “This morning, there was a message that went viral, to the effect “I’ve also just received two hate dramas and other fake news while I
claims of one of the Chinese doctors who arrived the country to help in
the fight against Coronavirus, testing positive for the virus.
the daily briefings or the website of the Nigeria Centre for Disease
Control (NCDC), also debunked report of members of the National Assembly
sharing a N700 million fund.
like I said, just as we are trying to fight and contain Coronavirus, a
lot of energy is also being expended in fighting fake news.
been given to members of the National Assembly, but I know that fake
news is not abating.
that one of the Chinese doctors tested positive and that news was
supposed to have emanated from the Twitter handle of the federal
government. I want to say, to the best of our knowledge here, there’s no
such thing.
was sitting here, which I’ve been unable to open. But we will continue
always to debunk fake news and we’ll try our best to timely give you
information about the COVID-19, either through our daily press briefings
or through the website of the NCDC and the task force”
No Chinese doctor has tested positive for Coronavirus – Lai Mohammed
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