Alh. Yakubu Muhammed, the Director-General, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), has forbidden staff of the agency from reading online newspapers.
Muhammed said staff’s consumption of news publication from other mediums (online and otherwise) brings “embarrassment” to the agency.
The NTA DG, in a circular signed by the agency’s Executive Director, Admin and Training, Steve Egbo, warned that any staff of the organisation caught consuming news materials from the said mediums “will be made to face the consequences of his/her actions.”
In the memo dated January 15, 2018, Muhammed described as “serious act of misconduct”, NTA Staff’s patronage of “sensitive and topical national issues” being published in mostly Nigerian online newspapers.
See the attached circular:
Meanwhile, the Nigerian government, during a recent meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari with some security chiefs, had announced that it will soon commence the monitoring of social media accounts of high-profile citizens.
The move, according to the government, was to check the spate of hate speeches being made by prominent Nigerians.
