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Lai Raufu Mohammed

Date of Birth: 6 December 1951


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Costly U-turn on killings

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'...


Shooting the messengers

Last month Information Minister Lai Mohammed dismissed a leaked version of the tribunal's report as containing 'discrepancies errors and omissions'...


Lagos probe accuses military

Yet Information Minister Lai Mohammed has continued to describe last October's events as 'a phantom massacre'...


Nnamdi Kanu celebrates

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...


Protest, what protest?

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...


Generals tighten their grip

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...


Not yet, Generalissimo

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'...


The Gang of 43 breaks cover

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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