{"id":72284,"date":"2018-12-23T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72284"},"modified":"2018-12-23T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T15:30:44","slug":"2019-elections-tambuwal-warns-against-fake-news-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72284","title":{"rendered":"2019 elections: Tambuwal warns against fake news, hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tambuwal-meets-President-Buhari-assures-peaceful-resolution.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, on Saturday warned against the spread of fake news and hate speeches ahead of the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal in a message at the inauguration of the State Executive Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), said hate speech and fake news were becoming very divisive forces in the society.<\/p>\n<p>The governor noted that the increase in hate speech was becoming alarming hence a threat to Nigeria\u2019s democracy. NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has since become a threat in our Democratic system, as such, we should always discourage the spread of all news that will distract our peace and unity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting closer to the 2019 general election, journalist have to adhere by the code of conduct and the ethics of the profession,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor was represented at the event by the Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Bello Goronyo.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal pledged more support to journalists in the state, to enable them discharge their responsibilities more professionally.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, on Saturday warned against the spread of fake news and hate speeches ahead of the 2019 general elections. Tambuwal in a message at the inauguration of the State Executive Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), said hate speech and fake news were becoming very divisive forces in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,1340,200],"class_list":["post-72284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-aminu-waziri-tambuwal","tag-sokoto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}