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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
Methodology

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.