Contrary to the reports that Lai
Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture made a move to shut
down the Big Brother Naija reality show, the minister has denied the report.
Mohammed was reported to have
ordered the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to suspend the show due to
COVID-19 risks
Following the reports, Nigerians
criticised the minister on social media for allegedly planning to have the show
shut down.
But, the minister, in a statement
by his media aide debunked the media claim saying the ‘report was not credited
to the minister’.
Describing the report as
speculative, the minister said there was no memo to support the claim that he
ordered the NBC to suspend the show on DSTV.
The statement reads, “The report
was not credited to the minister. That statement is not credited to the
minister. We will not dignify speculative reports; if a minister issues a
directive, it will not be issued verbally.
“There’s going to be a memo to
that effect that he will send; anybody that is sure that the minister made that
statement should provide a memo.
“Like I said earlier, we will not
dignify speculative report; if you tune your satellite TV to channel 198, I am
sure Big Brother Naija is still airing, contrary to the speculative report that
the minister has ordered NBC to suspend the show.”
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