I figure that significant Nigerian presence on Facebook came about 2008. If i remember well, this was about the time I also signed up. And our presence have matured through the years. Today, Facebook have given millions of Nigerians a voice to air all kinds of opinion, rumours, gossip, and propaganda. Incidentally, President Goodluck Jonathan is the first Nigerian leader to face Facebook. I wonder how and what it would have been if Facebook, Twitter, et al, were available when Obasanjo tried his 3rd term agenda, or (if you can think back enough ) how Buhari would have reacted to Facebook when he was Head of State, and promulgated Decree 2 that targetted journalists and disloyal persons? Would he have banned the Internet, considering that today at least 50 million Nigerians are social media journalists. In those days, a strategy deployed by vendors to sell unfamiliar unsold back copies of News magazines was to tell us that N.S.O. seize am! (NSO (current SSS, was distinctively notorious during Buharis WAI crackdown in1984 that saw repression against journalists, people from the wrong ethnic groups, government officials considered disloyal and Felas over 2 year of imprisonment by these animals in human skin! How would Buhari have handled the democratisation of journalism via Facebook, Twitter, and the rest? - Syke
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:00:41 +0000
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