Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Monday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain the policy on ban of rice importation and not succumb to any pressure. The governor made the appeal in Makurdi when the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, paid him a courtesy visit. Newsmen report the minister was in Makurdi
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Minister of Information Lai Mohammed has backtracked on his earlier statement where he announced the increment of hate speech fine from N500,000 to N5million. The Minister to the shock of Nigerians made a blatant denial of announcing the increment under a sworn oath despite video evidence. This is coming after Human Rights Lawyer Inibehe Effiong
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Leaders of the South-East geopolitical zone on Saturday at a meeting in Enugu pledged their commitment to an indivisible and united Nigeria built on love, fairness, equity and justice. They announced the resolution through a communique issued at the end of the meeting with a presidential delegation to the region. The leaders made the pledge
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The Federal Government, on Saturday, said social media massacre took place during the End SARS protest. Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, says no single Nigerian was killed at the Lekki Toll Gate when soldiers shot at the protesters who were demonstrating against the excesses of police under the aegis of #EndSARS. Prof. Ibrahim Gambari,
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The Senate on Tuesday tackled the Minister of information, Lai Mohammed, over a controversial project fully funded by the Ministry of Finance for execution by his Ministry in the 2020 fiscal year. The Senate further told the Minister that he had a lot of explanation to make on a controversial N250 million project allocated to
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Protesters, have said in a tweet,that they plan to block three of the FCT’s most strategic highways: the Kubwa- Zuba Expressway, the Abuja International Airport Road and the Abuja-Keffi Road. Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, while featuring in a radio programme over the weekend, wondered why the protest is still going on
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The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture has allocated N336m in the 2021 budget to campaign against hate speech and fake news. This is contained in the 2021 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. It reads in part, “ERGP9124023 Special enlightenment campaign on government policies and programmes; testimonial
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The Ghanaian government says the Federal government of Nigeria has also taken steps in the past that have adversely affected its citizens. The Ghanaian government stated this days after the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, spoke against the issues affecting Nigerian traders in Ghana. Lai at a press conference last Friday, August 28,
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The Nigeria Police Force has released Rotimi Jolayemi, the broadcaster who allegedly insulted the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a song that went viral on social media. His wife, Dorcas, told The PUNCH that he was released on Friday evening after spending 45 days in police custody. She said, “I am very
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The Nigerian Government on Thursday said it was tracing 4,370 persons, who came into contact with people that were suffering from COVID-19. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja, said the country was on the verge of community transmission of the disease. Mohammed said this
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed yesterday denied allegations by Amnesty International (AI) that Nigerian troops burnt some villages and forcefully displaced the residents. Although the Defence Headquarters had responded to the accusation, Mohammed who spoke yesterday at a news conference in Abuja, said Nigerian troops do not employ arson as an
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The Federal Government will not stop Nigerians from travelling to China or any other country where coronavirus has manifested. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known while addressing newsmen shortly after a meeting of the inter-ministerial and multi-sectoral committee on coronavirus held at the Ministry of Health, Abuja on Friday. He
Read moreThe Federal Government says the speculated plan by the US to add Nigeria to its existing list of visa travel ban countries is ill-conceived. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in London during an interview session with Reuters News Agency. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the minister
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Following growing outcry of the Nigeria’s debt profile, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said on Monday the regime of the President Muhammadu Buhari, alone could not be blamed for the country’s debt stock. The information minister said the debt stock was “a cumulative figure of borrowings by successive governments over many
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