Why 2023 election is credible —Lai Mohammed

Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd,), has delivered on his pledge to leave behind a legacy of free, fair and credible elections through the conduct of 2023 polls. Mohammed stated this in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations. […]

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Lai Mohammed’s Subterfuge By Moonlight, By Festus Adedayo

Last week, as Minister of Information and Orientation, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, was engrossed in his theatrics over the Lagos EndSARS panel report; I was wrapped in sobriety as I listened to Manchester-based UK pop group of artists called the Hollies. Renowned for being one of Britain’s leading musical groups of the 1960s and into the […]

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Lai Mohammed says Twitter ban in Nigeria will be lifted in a matter of days

Nigerian Government has given the sign that the over two months’ ban on the social networking giant, Twitter, in Nigeria will be lifted soon. It made it known that it has reached an agreement with Twitter in most areas of misunderstanding. Fielding questions from the press at the State House after Wednesday’s FEC meeting, the […]

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Reincarnating Mugabe, The Black Hitler, In Lai Mohammed, By Festus Adedayo

All through history, even with the advent of modernism, despots who hate the power of free speech always have their own version of repressive ancient monarchies’ abenilori – ones entrusted with the task of beheading opponents. While  Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe had his in Minister of Information and Publicity, Jonathan Nathaniel Mlevu Moyo,  President […]

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Dorsey, Twitter’s founder, liable for #EndSARS losses ―Lai Mohammed

The Federal Government says Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, are vicariously liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSARS protest. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Tuesday when he featured on “Politics Nationwide,’’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria in […]

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Part of the consequences of 1975 coup is the insecurity we’re suffering now ―Lai Mohammed

Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has blamed the country’s current security challenges on the 1975 coup d’état which overthrew Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Muhammed to power. Sharing moments from a town-hall meeting on national security organised by the federal government in an interview on Channels Television, the Minister narrated how the Gowon government was planning to […]

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Professors may be working in bakeries in Togo for survival, if Nigeria disintegrates ―Lai Mohammed

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed has warned that Professors could be working in bakeries in Togo just to survive if Nigeria disintegrates. Lai Mohammed who featured on a NAN flagship interview programme on Wednesday April 21, stated that the Buhari administration’s main issue is with the elites and not the common people. He also insinuated […]

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Lekki shooting incident, a massacre without bodies ―Lai Mohammed

Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Lekki shooting incident was a ”massacre without bodies”. On October 20, Army officers stormed the Lekki tollgate where #EndSARS protesters were protesters. While the Lagos state government says only two persons died, eyewitnesses including DJ Switch alleged that about 15 bodies were […]

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I will support the Hate Speech Bill if its first victims are Buhari, Tinubu, Lai Mohammed, El-Rufai, Keyamo & Amaechi -Fani-Kayode

Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he will throw his weight behind the controversial Hate Speech Bill if the provisions are made to function retroactively and the first victims to be sanctioned are President Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu, Nasir El-Rufai, Festus Keyamo and Rotimi Amaechi for the hateful words they […]

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Govt to impose tougher sanctions to regulate social media in Nigeria -Lai Mohammed

Nigerian Government on Tuesday said it was working on how to inject sanity into social media which it said was currently out of control. Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja. Mohammed said no responsible government would sit back and allow such activities capable of […]

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