Buhari I + IIMinister of Information & National Orientation· November 2015 — May 2023
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information & Culture. Public face of the Buhari administration.
The record
Lai Mohammed (b. 30 May 1952, Oro, Kwara State) was Minister of Information & Culture for the full eight years of the Buhari administration.
His tenure included the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria (5 June 2021 – 13 January 2022) following the platform's deletion of a presidential tweet, and the Code of Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries (2022).
Sources
- Federal Ministry of Information & Culture — Press release, 4 June 2021
- National Information Technology Development Agency — Code of Practice, 2022
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.