The Northern Governors Forum, pledged their support towards the effort by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to regulate the use of social media in order to checkmate the spread of fake news. The administration has made regulating social media its priority, blaming the social media for the spread of ‘fake news’ which it says can destroy the country if left unchecked. The forum expressed its support in a communiqué issued by its Chairman and Governor of Plateau, Mr Simon Lalong, on Monday after its meeting in Kaduna with traditional rulers and other key stakeholders in the region. The NGF members, who noted the devastating effect of the uncontrolled use social media in spreading fake news, called for major control mechanisms and censorship of the social media practice in Nigeria.