Lai Mohammed, ministerial nominee from Kwara state, says his seven-year-old grandson once asked him why people refer to him as a liar. Critics of Mohammed, especially on social media, are fond of replacing his first name with "liar".Speaking when he appeared before the senate for screening on Tuesday, the former minister of information said he had ignored his critics until his grandson [...]
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A high court in the federal capital territory (FCT) has granted the application of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to list Lai Mohammed, former minister of information, as witness in a "N2.5 billion fraud case".The anti-graft agency is prosecuting Ishaq Kawu, director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), for alleged abuse of office and money [...]
The Independent Corrupt Practice and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has asked Lai Mohammed, a former minister of information, to appear at a federal high court in Abuja over an alleged N2.5 billion fraud case involving the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).ICPC is prosecuting Ishaq Kawu, NBC director-general, over “abuse of office and money laundering”.The commission had filed a 12-count charge against [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the recent comment by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the Boko Haram crisis is absurd and divisive.In a statement on Tuesday, the minister said it was tragic that the former president who fought to keep the country as one is the same person seeking to divide it in the twilight of his life.While delivering [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says Nigeria is safe for world leaders invited to the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.Mohammed spoke while fielding questions from journalists at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.The minister had been asked to tell Nigerians measures that have been taken to make the country safe since he raised an alarm [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the federal government has evidence of plans by the opposition to sabotage government.He spoke on Saturday at the 12th annual Lai Mohammed Ramadan lecture in Oro, Kwara state.The minister alleged that the opposition is working to overheat the polity and make the country ungovernable.He said the security agencies would not "allow anyone to reverse [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says he cannot say for sure that Lai Mohammed, minister of information, Adamu Adamu, his education counterpart, and Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, are in their best of behaviour this Ramadan. Osinbajo, who spoke when Buhari hosted him and some ministers to iftar (breaking of fast) at the presidential villa on Monday, said some [...]
A federal capital territory (FCT) high court, Apo, on Wednesday, adjourned till June 18, a N5 billion defamation suit, filed by Raymond Dokpesi against the minister of information and culture and attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice.Dokpesi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, filed the suit on April 30, seeking [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, has asked Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to stop "overheating the polity".Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Mohammed advised Atiku not to give the impression that he does not have confidence in the country's judicial system.The minister said this following reports that the PDP candidate hired a [...]
Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, says the federal government was denied loans by some foreign organisations because of the clashes between farmers and herdsmen in some parts of the country.The minister told the house of representatives committee information, national orientation, ethics and value on Thursday that the federal government had to lobby some international media organisations over [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the broom of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has swept Kwara state clean of “hegemony politics”.Mohammed spoke at a news briefing in Ilorin, the state capital, on Monday.The minister said the long battle for the emancipation of Kwara had been attained with the outcome of the polls.He said with the unprecedented victories, the people [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the polls is for "ordinary" Nigerians.Mohammed said this on Thursday in Abuja when the ministry held an event in his honour.The ministry congratulated Mohammed on the victory he and the All Progressives Congress (APC) recorded during Saturday's polls in Kwara state.Senate President Bukola Saraki whose family has [...]
In 2011, Bukola Saraki retired his father, Olusola, from politics by backing Abdulfatah Ahmed against Gbemisola, his own younger sister, in the governorship race. Their father had been the godfather Kwara politics for decades and the popular saying was: "Anywhere Saraki goes, Kwara goes."After controversially installing Bukola, his first son, as governor in 2003, Saraki - who was senate leader [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says Leah Sharibu is not dead.Sharibu is the only Christian among the 119 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Dapchi, Yobe state, who were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in February 2018.The other girls have since been freed.Almost one year later since Sharibu was abducted, there are reports saying she died in captivity.Speaking with journalists in Kwara [...]
The federal government has launched a campaign in support of the military.Speaking at the launch of the campaign on Thursday in Abuja, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the campaign is important because the men and women in the military are risking their lives to protect the country.Mohammed said those who do not know the sacrifices the soldiers make have [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says the opposition is dispatching a 10-man delegation to the US, UK to discredit the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the forthcoming polls.Mohammed said this on Monday while speaking with journalists in Abuja.The minister said the opposition is planning to tell these countries that the Buhari administration has concluded plans of rigging the polls."We can [...]
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