Lai Mohammed

Federal Government has directed the police to diligently investigate the gang-rape and murder of Vera Uwaila Omozuwa in Benin. The FG also instructed that 11 men involved in the serial sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl in Jigawa State…

Nigeria Police Force has charged a journalist, Rotimi Jolayemi popularly known as Oba Akewi, to court for acting in a manner that can incite ‘annoyance’ and ‘hatred’ towards the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.…

Rotimi Jolayemi, a freelance broadcaster, has been detained for 12 days allegedly on the order of Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture. Jolayemi, known as Oba Akewi, is the vice-chairman Freelance and Independent Radio…

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) for the Control of Coronavirus (COVID-19), has said it has successfully traced over 8,932 people of interest and is still monitoring 220…

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed Federal government has said it is tracing over 4,370 people that have had contact with index cases of the novel Coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) in Nigeria.  The Minister of Information…

The Federal Government has retained a controversial requirement for foreign journalists applying for Nigerian visa, which was introduced by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, and retained in the new Nigerian Visa Policy 2020 launched…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has stated that there is no going back in plans to regulate social media in the country. This is coming few weeks after the Minister denied the existence of a bill for the regulation…

Nigeria's Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, has said that funding the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) with half a billion dollars will enable it compete with the likes of Cable News Network (CNN), and give the…

Minister of Information and Communication, Lai Mohammed speaking The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has issued a new directive to compel the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately implement 70%…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that he is presenting to the public available evidences of how the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, lied that he donated N10 million to the victims of Offa bank robbery.…

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said it is “idiotic” to believe or peddle the rumor that President Buhari is cloned. Since his return from his UK medical trip, there have been rumors that the person in Aso Rock at the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss an application by a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, seeking to summon Minister of Information Lai Mohammed…

The Federal Government has refuted the statement credited to the Governors of the states in the South-east, that the region has been shortchanged in the implementation of infrastructural projects, saying there are 69 ongoing projects in the…

The Federal Government has distanced itself from the calls for Senate President Bukola Saraki to resign or be impeached following his defection from APC to PDP. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said this during a…

Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says his mission as new All Progressives Congress (APC) leader in Kwara is not to contest any elective position in 2019 but to rescue the state from hawks. The minister, who…