A statement on the event was made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Adviser to the minister
Mohammed was quoted as saying that the film industry had put the
I was in Maiduguri in 1992 with the current Managing Director of ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Mr Victor Ifijeh, then a political correspondent for Concord Newspapers, to cover the National Assembly election under the ‘guided democracy’ of General Ibrahim Babangida. The battle for the Borno Central Senatorial district was between Hajia Kolo Kingibe, wife of then Social Democratic Party (SDP) National Chairman, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe and Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff of the National Republican Convention (NRC). In those days, Kingibe used to describe Ifijeh as ‘the campaign manager of M.K.O. Abiola in Borno’ because the latter had visited the state …
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says ” there is no gain without pain”, Nigerians must endure the temporary effects of the closure of the borders to reap the attendant benefits.
The minister stated this on Monday when he paid a working visit to the new corporate headquarters of “The Sun” Newspaper in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the minister, who said that the visit was part of his ongoing media tour, was received by the management of the newspaper led by Mr Onuoha Ukeh, the Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief.
Fielding questions from the …
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as ‘absolute fake news’ the reports in the Social Media that the abducted Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, has died in captivity.
“It’s absolutely fake news. There is nothing like that,” the Minister said at a press briefing in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Sunday
He said the rumour of Miss Sharibu’s death, which surfaced just a few days to the presidential election, is another ploy by the political opposition to tarnish the image of the administration and exploit primordial sentiments ahead of the polls.
“I think it’s part of
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, on Saturday alleged that Gov. Mohammed Abubakar has defrauded Bauchi State of N400 billion in the last 3 and half years.
The Speaker also presented a documented evidence to prove the allegations, challenging Abubakar to seek redress if the claims were false. But the State government in a swift react to the allegations chided the speaker, saying he was deceiving the people to score cheap political points.
It stated that the internally generated revenue of the state within the period was far less than the quoted figure. Dogara, who spoke at …
