Don tasks government media on Social media

chika ebuzor

October 16, 2015 7:44 AM

According to her, new media offer a wide range of opportunities for citizens’ involvement in a new world of participatory approach to programming.

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Prof. Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, a don at the University of Lagos, on Thursday advocated for the use of the new media to enhance citizens’ involvement in programme planning and implementation.

Ogwezzy-Ndisika made the call at a retreat to fashion out new strategies in the management and dissemination of information on Federal Government’s programmes and activities to Nigerians.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Ministry of Information organised the retreat for all chief executive officers of its media agencies and other stakeholders in the country.

Ogwezzy-Ndisika, who presented a paper entitled `` Perspectives on Effectively Communicating Government Programmes at the Grassroots: Dimensions in the Use of Social and Traditional Media’’, advised the government to re-tool its media.

She advised that the Federal Government should re-equip its media through the use modern Information Communication Technology (ICT), to curb false and fabricated reports in the social and traditional media.

chika ebuzor