NA Tells Social Media Influencers To Consider National Security, Interest

By Afusat Agunbiade-Oladipo

The Nigerian Army has called on social media influencers and bloggers to play their role actively to enhance national security.

General Officer Commanding, 2 division, Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Bamidele Alabi, made call at the 31st Edition of the Social Media Influencers Seminar on Tuesday in Ilorin.

Alabi said that the Nigeria Army recognized the importance of bloggers and influencers of the social media as credible partners in shapping narrative towards enhancing national security.

According to him, this underlines the the constant effort of Nigeria Army in organizing programme like this to interact with all stakeholders.

The theme of the seminar is Emerging trend on Social Media: Impacts on National Security”.

He added that seminar is indeed timely and apt in the face of volatile, unpredictable, dynamic and fluid environment.

He urged the social media influencers and bloggers to use their platforms for peaceful coexistence in Nigeria.

“The social media platform has reengineered social interaction among peers, businesses, governments and so on.

“Social media platforms are used in advancing social and national insecurity, such as the situation in the northern and southeastern parts of Nigeria.

” Some groups use online media to propagate their agenda, and the general public also uses social media platforms to escalate this propaganda, which sometimes is fake news,” he added.

For his Part, the Chief of Military Affairs (Army), Maj. Gen. NC Ugbo, said the seminar is a continuous event held in selected towns across the country to enable the Nigerian Army interact with social media influencers, bloggers, media practitioners and the general public on how best the social media could be used to enhance national security.

” The platform provided by the social media seminar has afforded the Nigeria Army the opportunity to interact with influencers of the social and cyber space on how to responsibly use the various asset to foster security and peaceful coexistence”, he said.

He urged the participants to listening attentive to achieve the aim and objective of the seminar. (NAN)
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