PRNigeria Ladies have strongly condemned the “dangerous tendency” of the media in Nigeria to reproduce and sensationalise stories that are capable of destroying the hard-earned reputation of the womenfolk.
In September, a video titled “Nigerian women are the most unfaithful in the world” went viral on social media platforms; several newspapers and blogs feasted on the fabrication, using similar headlines.
At a press conference at the PRNigeria Centre in Abuja, the advocacy group of Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR) described the fake news as embarrassing. Team Lead, Rahma Oladosu, said an investigation found it misleading as it originated from a foreign site which earlier deleted it.
Oladosu, who recalled she and colleagues wrote articles and conducted vox pops to denounce the story, accused a “seemingly misogynistic section of the Nigerian press” of painting women as morally bankrupt…
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