
Earlier, the NCI Chairman and Honourable Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed had in his Keynote Address at the event observed that the democratization of information technology presents both new opportunities and new challenges, such as the deliberate misinformation of the unsuspecting public by some social media playerd. He described as unfounded, the social media reports that the launch of the “Change Begins with Me” campaign cost N3.4 bn, pointing out that the entire 2016 capital budget of the Federal Ministry of Information was less than N2bn. He therefore urged the conventional media to always verify before adopting contents originating from the social media