President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerians to be cautious of how they conduct themselves on social media. The president gave the advised as part of his October 1 Independence Day Speech.
According to Buhari, Nigerians need to learn how to use and not abuse new technologies which can provoke passions and stir tensions.
Excerpts:
“Fellow Nigerians, now we have in our hands technology that is a powerful tool that we can and should use for knowledge and understanding. As with other countries, we must also learn how to manage those tendencies that, instead, look to abuse new technologies to provoke passions and stir tensions.
“Never before have we faced such a challenge. We must all rise to the responsibility of shutting out those disruptive and corrosive forces that hide in today’s world of social media.
“We need critical minds and independent thinking, to question and question until we are satisfied we have the facts. Otherwise, all the progress we have made as a democracy since 1999 is at stake.”
