BBC & DailyMail Apologize About Nigerian Restaurant Serving Human Flesh Story - Politics

Clarifications and corrections - DAILY MAIL

An article on 16 May reported that a Nigerian restaurant was shut down for serving human flesh, based on a BBC Swahili report. BBC Swahili has now confirmed that the story was incorrect and the article has now been removed from our website.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-3087664/Clarifications-corrections.html

BBC

“The story about the Nigerian restaurant which we published here was a mistake and we apologise. It was incorrect and published without the proper BBC checks. We have removed the story and have launched an urgent investigation into how this happened.
The BBC Swahili service’s reputation for accuracy and balance remains of paramount importance to us and we are taking the appropriate steps to insure that mistakes like this do not happen again.”

http://www.bbc.com/swahili/habari/2015/05/150513_human_meat_nigeria