Lai Tactless Threat
The Federal Government of Nigeria, via Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has disclosed it will sanction the BBC and Trust TV, a television owned by Media Trust Group, over their stories on bandits in the northern region of the country.
In separate documentaries, BBC Africa Eye and Trust TV recently exposed the activities of terrorists making life difficult for Nigerians.
However, speaking with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the documentaries promoted terrorism in Nigeria.
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With the indifference and seeming complicity being display by the Federal Government over the spiralling insecurity, it is facetious for Lai Mohammed to threaten sanctions over the exposé on the terrorists except there is something the authorities are scared of.
Gbajabiamila Harvard Tweet
Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has apologised following the criticism he received for sharing photos of himself attending a leadership course at Harvard University in the United States.
Gbajabiamila posted photos of himself receiving lectures at the university on Tuesday, while members of the Nigeria Labour Congress staged solidarity rallies nationwide in support of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over unresolved issues with the Federal Government that has led to the shutdown of public universities for more than five months.