A
German journalist, Dominic Johnson has issued a corrective message to
the generality of media houses in Nigeria following a misinformation by
an online news platform as well as the President Muhammadu Buhari's
Personal Assistant on New Media named Bashir Ahmad.
Bashir Ahmad and President Muhammadu Buhari
After the dirty drama of plagiarism that has plagued President
Muhammadu Buhari's media team recently, his P.A - Bashir Ahmad has
goofed again on social media with another act of gross misinformation
that has caught the eye of a foreigner from Europe.
Bashir Ahmad impatiently took to his Twitter page to announce the
spoils of President Buhari's visit to Germany to meet with German
Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Mr Ahmad ambitiously stated that Merkel has
earmarked $18 'billion' for the development of the Lake Chad Basin area
after assumably obstaining the false report from 'The Cable' online
newspaper.
Dominic Johnson swiftly corrected the false report by claiming the
proposed fund is $18 million which is simply for humanitarian aid to the
region. This has been described as an embarrassment to the state of
journalism in Nigeria where reports make headlines and go viral without
due investigations by reporters.
Dominic Johnson is a Foreign Editor & Africa Editor of German newspaper TAZ (die tageszeitung) in Berlin - Germany.
No comments:
Post a Comment