Who missed the star-studded premiere of “The Wedding Party” on Saturday, November 26th 2016. In attendance were, members of the cast – RnB heavyweight Banky W, who made his acting debut in this movie, Adesua Etomi, Sola Sobowale, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Ali Baba, Ireti Doyle, Enyinna Nwigwe, AY Makun, EmmaOhMyGod, Saka, Kunle Idowu (Frank Donga), Ikechukwu, Beverly Naya, Somkele Idhalama, and more! (more…)
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has reassured that the Federal Government would not do anything to stifle press freedom. The minister gave the assurance on Tuesday at the Third Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation in Beijing, China. In a statement issued on the event by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Adviser to the Minister, Mohammed described the Nigerian media as one of the most vibrant in Africa and indeed across the world. (more…)
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said that dressing masquerades can create a thousand jobs in one week for Nigerians. Speaking at the sectoral debate of the Federal House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday, Mohammed said that most states in Nigeria have one festival or the other which if packaged very well can provide employment for Nigerians. Most states today have more than one festival a year, but the packaging and lack of capacity has not enabled them to make the most out of these festivals. There’s a particular masquerade in the s
The proposed N5,000 to be paid to unemployed Nigerians, is still a hot topic in the news. Just yesterday, Minister of Labour and Employment,Chris Ngige, shed some light on who exactly would benefit from the welfare scheme. And now, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, is explaining more about the program. In an interview with Vanguard, Mohammed stated: “What we want to achieve by our social intervention of which the conditional transfer is just one part, is to move out millions of Nigerians from poverty. That is why we have this half a trillion naira
The Nigerian Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has appealed to Nigerian media to stop giving oxygen to Boko Haram by glamorizing their activities. He said this while speaking as a guest on Channels TV. “Just as I said in my meeting with the newspapers editors in Lagos on the 21st of December, the military has largely met the deadline to defeat Boko Haram, and the military has matched the capacity of terrorists to carry out the attacks they used to. Of course, I also mentioned that the terrorists will continue to attack such targets as markets, motor parks, entertain
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