According to report reaching oyogist.com, Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has challenged broadcast media in the to take the lead in telling the Nigerian story.
Lai Mohammed spoke in Oko, Oyo State, while commissioning the 89.3 FM Station on Saturday.
He said “I challenge broadcast media in Nigeria to take the lead in telling the Nigerian story…”
“A situation in which foreign broadcast stations arrogate to themselves the power to tell our own story gives room for distortion of facts.
“A situation in which the local media will rely and quote a foreign broadcast media, for an event that happened in Nigeria, is an anomaly. It has to stop,”