With Concerns about the volume of hate messages in the social media and the
level of crime in the Nigerian cyberspace, the National Orientation
Agency (NOA) is synergizing with the National Communications Commission
(NCC) to discourage the trend.
This was the fall-out of a working visit by the NOA Director General,
Garba Abari to the NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbata
where Abari canvassed a more systematic deployment of social media for
character molding and youth guidance.
Describing communication media as character molders, Abari said Nigeria
was paying a costly prize for the erosion of its values over the years,
largely by the irresponsible use of communication media and the
infiltration of wrong values into the new media. He said the role of
social media in an information-driven age was very critical to the
values reorientation drive of Nigeria, calling for a change to positive
use of social media.
Similarly, Prof. Umar Danbata urged Nigerian cyber space users to be
more responsible and sensitive to the protection of the nation’s core
values. He also urged NOA to x-ray the Cyber Crimes Act to discover
possible windows for sensitization of cyberspace users on the avoidance
of cybercrimes and the need to deploy cyberspace for positive,
productive and patriotic purposes.
A six-man joint committee was set up to work out areas of collaboration
between NOA and NCC toward promoting healthier, more patriotic content
in social media messaging in the country.
