The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says the remains of late Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, the Service’s first female combat helicopter pilot, who died on Tuesday, will  be buried on July 23 at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who made this known in a ...

The Federal Government says the strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) was “needless and insensitive” because issues raised by the association had received attention. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this known at a media briefing on Sunday in Abuja. The briefing was jointly addressed by Mohammed and ...

The Federal Government says the alarm and doom predictions by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the country’s debt profile is anchored on a false premise. The government position is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. In the statement signed by Mr Segun Adeyemi, Special ...

  The Federal Government has congratulated a media entrepreneur and filmmaker, Mo Abudu, on her partnership with a leading global streaming service, Netflix, to create two original series and multiple Netflix-branded films. This was contained in a statement issued by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Abuja on Friday. He described ...

The Federal Government says the stage is set for the perennial power problem to become a thing of the past in the country, following an agreement with German company Siemens to boost power supply. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the assurance on Friday in Abuja at a media briefing to ...

The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the Federal Government is yet to receive the promised ventilators from the United States of America (USA). The minister said this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Coronavirus (COVID-19) daily news briefing on Thursday in Abuja. The minister was reacting to information being ...

The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government is committed to ensure safety of journalists in their coverage of COVID-19 pandemic. Mohammed spoke at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 press briefing on Thursday in Abuja, saying journalists are like front line health workers, also on essential duty and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday had a phone conversation with the United States President, Donald Trump. The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force press briefing on COVID-19. He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari today had a phone conversation with President Donald Trump at the request of the ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has lauded journalists and media organisations over their efforts to curtail the Coronavirus pandemic, saying their efforts will not go unrewarded. Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, said this while responding to questions from newsmen at the daily briefing by the PTF on Tuesday ...

Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Professor Akin Abayomi   The Lagos State government says there is no policy prohibiting the release of dead coronavirus patients to their families. The Commissioner for Health in the state, Professor Akin Abayomi, stated this during a briefing on Sunday while responding to a question to clarify the controversy surrounding the ...