The President, who listened to presentations by a governor from each of the six geopolitical zones on their specific security challenges, recalled that in the old order, communities identified new comers and passed information to constituted authority.
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the charge at the inauguration of “Ogo Ilu’” (Pride of the Society) FM station in Oko, near Ogbomoso, Oyo State.
The government also rebuked the UK parliament for acting in an uninformed manner in recommending sanctions for Nigeria over the hoax massacre at the Lekki Toll Gate during the protest.
Dubbed: “Lekki Massacre,” PRNigeria reports that the incident, which occurred on October 20, 2020, is fraught of a lot of misinformation, disinformation and fake news, to which a lot of reputable local and international media organisations were found culpable, including CNN itself and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The international broadcaster did this as a double retraction on its official Twitter account @CNNAfrica, with the tweet titled: “Clarification.”
The international broadcaster did this a double retraction on its Twitter handle it titled: “Clarification.”
But my interest grew from knowing to fascination and from fascination to respect when Mohammed became the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, a legacy party of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
This is coming less that 24 hours after Nigeria, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, wrote a protest letter to the international broadcaster, disputing the veracity of the report
In the petition addressed to Jonathan Hawkins VP, Communications, CNN Centre Atlanta, Georgia U.S, the government said if the international media organisation failed to carry out its demand, it will “take any action within its laws’’ to prevent CNN from aggravating the #EndSARS crisis.
Kagame has since held forte for 20 years as President of Rwanda. As he does, a world which, like a famished hyena, hungrily proclaims “democracy,” has been looking the other way as the baboon is daily bathed with blood in Kigali. In 2017 when he sought re-election, Kagame went down in the Guinness Book of Record as the first president in the world who would be elected by his people with 99 per cent votes.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday afternoon, the Minister described the report as one-dimensional and lacking in balance.
2. Before we delve into those issues, let’s look at the demand of the EndSARS protesters, whose campaign was aimed at ending police brutality and disbanding the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), and the response of the Federal Government:
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the call on Thursday in Abuja at a media briefing on the #EndSARS protest and its aftermath.
The American news channel also unveiled the identity of one Victor Sunday Ibanga, a protester who reportedly died on the night of the shootings.
Biden has overhauled what was a substantial lead for President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, and on Friday he pulled slightly ahead as mail-in ballots were added to the tally, broadcasters CNN and Fox reported.
The minister had scarcely finished answering when social media began to steam over the mistaken answer that Senegalese jollof rice was tastier than Nigeria’s. The avatars treated it as nothing less than culinary high treason.
Initial available footage of the incident in Powderhorn, a neighbourhood south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota created the impression that it was just Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis Police Officer, that had his his knee on the right side of Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, who killed him
US President Donald Trump fired the State Department’s head of internal audits, inspector general Steve Linick, late on Friday, according to media reports.
Meanwhile Democrats in Washington are starting to push for a fourth economic stimulus package aimed at massive infrastructure projects
There are already more than 124,000 cases and 2,190 deaths in the country