In the last administration Lai Mohammed held the combined portfolio of Minister of Information Culture and Tourism...
His former chief of staff in Lagos and outgoing communications minister Lai Mohammed told Africa Confidential that Tinubu's government would collect tax more efficiently rather than raise it...
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Information Minister Lai Mohammed who had previously threatened to sanction CNN for spreading misinformation about what he called a 'phantom massacre' threw barbs at the protestors saying the report was 'an intimidation of the majority by a minority'...
Last month Information Minister Lai Mohammed dismissed a leaked version of the tribunal's report as containing 'discrepancies errors and omissions'...
Yet Information Minister Lai Mohammed has continued to describe last October's events as 'a phantom massacre'...
In fact Information Minister Lai Mohammed who helped choreograph Buhari's successful election campaign in 2015 on social media has long argued for regulation of the sector...
Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has admitted calling in soldiers the army has said soldiers went to enforce a curfew at the Lekki toll gates and a general – and then Information Minister Lai Mohammed – said only blanks were fired...
Information Minister Lai Mohammed suggested 'some form of regulation' of platforms such as Twitter Instagram and Facebook which were used to relay footage of the shootings at Lekki...
In January 2019 the government called for restraint in reporting the conflict after Information Minister Lai Mohammed had asked newspaper proprietors to be more 'patriotic'...
Lai Mohammed (Kwara 67) – another ally of Tinubu's – could return as information minister or could be substituted with Sunday Dare (Oyo 53) a veteran journalist and social media guru who ran Voice of America's Hausa Service for eight years...
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