Nigeria's Department State Services  (DSS), also known as the State Security Service (SSS), said some organizations are plotting to undermine the peace and unity of the country, reports Concise News.

Peter Afunaya, spokesman for the secret police, observed on Monday that the plotters used fake news to exploit political differences and other occurrences in and outside the most populous nation in Africa.

Though he did not mention a specific group, the DSS official alleged that the planners were also trying to initiate narratives to deepen their “subversive objectives so as to achieve preferred illegal outcomes.”

Afunaya’s comments followed the circulation of an old video of Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, appearing to be asking Nigerians to forgive President Muhammadu Buhari for not allegedly submitting a West African senior school certificate to INEC.

Concise News understands that the minister came under severe attack last Friday after the emergence of the video of his appearance on Channels Television in January 2015. The video was circulated to seem like it was a recent one.

Similarly, in the midst of the xenophobic assaults on Nigerians in South Africa, pictures and videos were on fire in Apapa, Lagos, of an office belonging to MTN – a telecommunications company with South African origin.