by Omoleye Omoruyi

The Federal Government is to reactivate its YouTube account and open a website, to provide access to the public for authentic information on its activities.

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on digital and New media, Tolu Ogunlesi said on Monday that the YouTube account would be reactivated very soon while the website would be ready by the end of June.

“We have a YouTube account; it has not been active but one of the things we are working on over the next few weeks is to reactivate the page and upload our videos.

“Meanwhile, our videos go to twitter and Facebook but after reactivation, we are going to make sure all those videos go on to our YouTube.

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“On the website, it will be a one stop shop, where people can have free access to authentic information about Federal Government’s pronouncements, activities, policies and programmes.”

“However, we have since set up official Federal Government social media platforms on twitter, Facebook and Nairaland; we have an official Facebook account, facebook.com/asovilla.

“We put up information regularly and speedily on those platforms; that is our job and we will continue to do more”.

“We have Ministry of Health, the Centre for Disease Control, the EFCC, NDDC and others doing a lot of fantastic jobs and giving out authentic information on their social media platforms.”

According to Ogunlesi, fake news has negative effects on both government and some individuals in the society whose integrity is being destroyed by such news, “that is the reason the government is providing its social media platforms for people to get authentic information as an alternative to sites that spread fake and unpatriotic news,” he added.