Femi Adesina drags the heck out of Nigerian columnist, Akin Oshuntokun over his false claim on bomb blast

The Presidency on Thursday called out a newspaper columnist, Akin Oshuntokun, over  his false claim that a bomb blast had gone off in Maiduguri, Borno, on Aug. 21, killing about 88 people.  

Oshuntokun, a public affairs commentator, made the claim when he appeared on Politics Today programme of Channels Television, on Aug. 21 but Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, condemned the claim, saying no such incident was recorded.

Adesina said, ‘on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, Akin Oshuntokun, a chieftain of the…