NGO Advises Online Newspapers To Move Against Hate Speeches

Malam Hamza Ibrahim, the spokesperson of CITAD gave the advice on Wednesday at a media briefing organised by the association in Kano.

A Kano based Non Governmental Organisation, Centre for Information Technology and Development, has advised Online Newspapers to regulate their sites against hate speeches.
Malam Hamza Ibrahim, the spokesperson of CITAD gave the advice on Wednesday at a media briefing organised by the association in Kano.
According to Ibrahim, the organisation has tracked 175 hate speeches on the social media for the month of June which were used at various platforms.
He said that about 28 per cent of the recorded speeches were religious based while 36 per cent were tribal based and 1.7 percent was politically motivated.
He said: “The languages used for the hate speeches in May as we monitored were English and pidgin.”
The CITAD spokesman however, appealed to traditional and religious leaders at different capacities to create avenues of sentisitising and cautioning people against hate speeches.
Ibrahim described hate speeches as “anti peace and anti development’ which people must avoid.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that CITAD in partnership with MacArthur Foundation had been monitoring and countering hate speeches on media platforms since 2014.