Propaganda

A false news

The media is a very dangerous place and there's a lot of false news being spread on a daily, people that don't know much about the propaganda the media present on their screens do believe everything that comes from the media, a lot of people have been misled by what the media brings, and for this, they will think that the country is okay, but not know that the country is actually on fire.

Thank God for the internet, though the Internet has done more harm than good, still, it has opened our eyes and ears to see and hear what is happening around the world, the government can't control what the people see or hear anymore with their propaganda they show on the tv news.

A few months back, they were an attack on the railway in one of the states in my country, some group of bandit went bomb the railway and the train that was coming had a clash there, the bandits attacked the train and started shooting, some people recorded it and posted it online to alert others of what is happening to them that they need help because they have been attacked by bandits (terrorist) after much of gunfire, some passengers were hit by the bullets, some sustain injuries, while some couldn't make it because the bullet went very deep, the news was all over Twitter NG that night and people couldn't sleep because they want to know if those that were attacked are safe.

After that day, popular tv news broadcast to their viewers that the army has saved those passengers that were attacked by bandits and none of them died, some people begin to praise the army for saving all the passengers on the train, they don't know that it was false news and the photos of some people that died in the attack have been circulated Twitter NG, the family of the victims that died will be in deeper pain because of the false news that was spread to people that watching tv.

Another one is the recent article I wrote some days back about the girl that was murdered in her school by some group of people, this same tv station changed what actually happened to the girl and they said that the girl died while they were protesting because of the current ASUU strike (University teachers strike) that is happening right now.

Since when did a college of education become a part of ASUU? These people can discredit any news and manipulate it to the public that this is what actually happened, if not that the so-called murderers recorded the video and posted it their selves, we would have thought that it was because of the ASUU, those people destroy countless properties and the army was nowhere to be found, they didn't make any arrest or whatsoever.

After breaking the news to the public that the girl died while protesting, when they realize that the public didn't buy it because they all have already watched the video of what actually happened, they now went and apologize that it was a false news that the host or perhaps the broadcasters of the news thought it was because the of the ASUU strike and they didn't bother to confirm it before breaking it to the public.

How will a broadcast just start reading news that he or she is not sure of when she knows that more than a million people are watching it live, that I don't get, if it was a blogger that wrote it, I won’t say much because a lot of bloggers like carrying fake news as long as they have a lot of engagements in it, but for a tv staton to carry it and say that they made a mistake about the news is not true and I can’t buy that, this isn’t the first time they start sharing false news, it’s just that they were caught this time and they have to apology so they won’t lose a lot of viewers.

Concerning the ASUU strike, the government still hasn’t granted their needs and it pains me that the country is drowning, the people power don’t want students to graduate, they are just playing with the country's Education, a lot of students has been searching for ways to study abroad, and the fortunate ones he's gained admission to study abroad. One of the students that got admission to Finland university wrote that even though she has started from year one again in this new university, it will be worth it because Nigeria education is F-up and the rich people send their students to study abroad while the none rich one will have to face the consequences of studying in Nigeria university.

The students of Nigeria universities took to the streets and started protesting for the strike to end, they started it a few days back the turn up by students around the state was huge, only for the army to show up the protection one of the states and destroy their properties, they destroy a lot of things of the students and they started shooting so the students will run, which they did because no one will ready to die and if anyone had died, they would have covered it up with their false news.

There was an explosion this morning in a basic education school and I am sure that not everyone will hear about it, some school children lost their lives to the explosion and also some adults too, according to the police, they said it was caused by gas, probably a cooking gas that they were using in the school, but some people said otherwise and come to think of it, I have seen a gas explosion that destroyed an entire building, like the whole building break down like it was demolished.

One of the students that survived the explosion with some bruises on her neck, said that they were in the glass when someone throw a bomb into the building and they didn't know what it was until it exploded and break down the building, this makes more sense than the one the police said, maybe a large content of gas can destroy the walls of a building but how can a cooking gas do such heavy damage, that's a question that they need to ask themselves before concluding it was a gas that fills the whole building, maybe they don't want the public to be afraid and start pointing fingers because of what happened some days ago, but still the public needs to be aware so they can be security conscious about their environments.

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18-05-2022