Beware, merchants of fake news on the prowl, Presidency dismisses Buhari travel reports

Purveyors of fake and concocted information are currently on overdrive, Nigerian presidency raises alarm in a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina.

Adesina therefore urged Nigerians to be careful what they consume as news, and also share with others, particularly from the social media.

This was coming on the ills of a report that President Muhammadu Buhari was billed to travel to United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and Austria, a report the presidential adviser dismissed as fake.

He said, “An unfounded information has been making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to travel to the United Kingdom for 20 days, and from there proceed to Saudi Arabia, and then Austria. Fake. It is nothing but falsehood from mischievous minds.

“Members of the First Family, Ministers, top government officials, the military, and other key institutions, are equally objects of this orchestrated falsehood, coming from enemies of national cohesion.

“We urge Nigerians to be discriminatory about what they accept as credible information, and restrain themselves from sharing what they have not authenticated as genuine.

“That is how we can all collectively beat the malevolent minds at their pernicious games.”