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NUJ, NGE Kick As FG Insists On Social Media Regulation

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed to regulate social media
Govt threatens sanction against CNN The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) yesterday cautioned the Federal Government against its insistence on regulating the socialRead More

Amnesty Int. Demands Release Of Journalist Who Criticised Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed vs Rotimi Jolayemi
Rights group, Amnesty International, has called on the Nigeria Police Force to immediately release broadcast journalist, Rotimi Jolayemi, who has spent three weeks in custody for criticising the Minister ofRead More

Police Detained Me For 8 Days, Because My husband Criticised Lai Mohammed – Wife

Rotimi Jolayemi and his wife, Dorcas
Mrs. Dorcas Jolayemi, the wife of a journalist detained for criticising Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, narrates her eight-day ordeal in the custody of the Kwara State PoliceRead More

Journalist Detained 12 Days For Criticising Lai Mohammed – CDHR

Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has alleged that radio personality, Rotimi Jolayemi, popularly known as Oba Akewi, has been illegally detained by the Federal Investigation Bureau ofRead More

Coronavirus: We Never Expected Something Worse Than Ebola – FG

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has asked state governors to, at least, provide 300-bed space facilities in their respective states in case of an upsurge in the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spreadingRead More

Coronavirus: FG To Ban Inter-State Travel, Close Motor Parks

A motor park in Nigeria
The Federal Government has announced plans to ban inter-state travel and possibly shut down motor parks, as part of its efforts to decrease the spread of the Coronavirus disease. TheRead More

FG Alerts Nigerians to Dangerous Computer Coronavirus Ransomware

COVID-19 tracker
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 alerted Nigerians over the threat of an Android-based malicious and fraudulent coronavirus ransomware application, which claims to deliver updates onRead More

Coronavirus: FG Prepared To Use Army, Police For Contact Tracing

Police task force
The Federal Government has warned Nigerians to prepare for tougher measures, in a move to properly response to the coronavirus pandemic. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, relayed thisRead More

No Going Back On Social Media Regulation – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed to regulate social media
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has stated that the Federal Government will not reverse its plan to regulate social media. Mohammed, who revealed this to in anRead More

Atiku Raises Alarm On Alleged Plans To Smear His Personality

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
The defeated presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has alleged that there were plans by “unscrupulous and anti-democratic elements to contrive skirmishes in the comingRead More