2023 BUDGET: I NEED MORE FUNDS TO FIGHT FAKE NEWS, LAI MOHAMMED TELLS SENATE
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that his ministry needs more funds to tackle the scourge of fake news.
The Minister said this while speaking in Abuja when he appeared before Senator Danladi Sankara, All Progressives Congress, APC, Jigawa North-West led Senate Committee on Information to defend the budget for 2023.
He emphasized to the Senate that his Ministry needs more funds as a matter of urgency to tackle the scourge of fake news, and hate speech and propagate the achievements of the government in the last 7 and a half years.