Nigeria, Feb. 18 -- A new study has revealed how Nigeria's former Minister of Aviation and recent ambassadorial nominee, Femi Fani-Kayode, amplified a fictitious story that misled the Nigerian media and, in turn, the House of Representatives.

Titled, '7,221 Refrigerated Human Penises": Examining Nigerian Media's Failure to Verify a Sensational, "Credible" Satirical Story,' the study published in the Journal of Media Ethics was conducted by journalist-scholar Kemi Busari.

The study revealed that on 13 April 2021, at 4:42 p.m. local time, the former minister of aviation tweeted that a Nigerian ship had tried to smuggle thousands of mutilated human penises to China.

The study traced the source of Mr Fani-Kayode's information to a satirica...