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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said his official trip to the U.S. was fruitful and successful in spite of deliberate and sponsored fake news by detractors.<\/p>\n

The minister said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) before he departed Washington, DC, for Lagos.<\/p>\n

NAN reports that the minister was in the U.S. to engage with international media organisations and think-tanks on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration and the efforts made so far in tackling insurgency, banditry and all forms of criminality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a very hectic three-day engagement in Washington, DC, and I am very satisfied with the outcome of the engagements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been able to achieve our objective which is to come and tell our own stories, to give an account of our stewardship to the global media and think-tanks and I am very glad that we met both,\u2019\u2019 he said<\/p>\n

The minister said contrary to a fake online report, he did not sneak out of the country and his mission to the U.S. was never to meet with Twitter officials and he never did.<\/p>\n

NAN reports that the minister had described as \u201cfake and irresponsible\u2019\u2019 the media report that he \u201csneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executive.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Wednesday, Aug. 18, we had interview session with the BBC Radio and Television, Bloomberg and Politico, a U.S. based journalism company that covers politics and policy in the U.S. and internationally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe opened our programme on Thursday with interview with Reuters, followed by Washington Post and another (live) interview with Bloomberg Quicktake.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Friday, we had interview session with VOA Radio and TV, and met with Dr Peter Pham, a Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a think-tank, and former President Trump\u2019s Special Envoy to the great Lake Region of Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a very useful discussion with Pham and we were able to put across to him our narratives on security, COVID-19, Twitter ban<\/a>, Economy and how well we are doing in the area of infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were also able to debunk the negative and fake stories about persecution of Christians and he made very useful suggestions which we are going to follow up,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the minister said he had a closed-door meeting with Mr Mathew Lussenhap, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Culture and Ambassador Johnnie Carson, a Senior Advisor at the United States Institute for Peace.<\/p>\n

The closed-door meeting with Lussenhap, according to the minister, focused on a bilateral agreement between Nigeria and the U.S, on how to stop illicit trafficking in cultural property and artefacts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe agreed on the final draft of the MoU which will be ready after vetting by our Ministry of Justice, and anytime soon, there will be a signing in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agreement is to prevent artefacts and cultural property that people want to illicitly ship to the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to artefacts, the agreement also extends to illicit drug trafficking and the FBI is involved,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Mohammed said his engagement with Carson, an American diplomat who had served as his country\u2019s Ambassador to several African nations, was frank and fruitful and they exchanged ideas on a broad number of issues.<\/p>\n

He said there was a discussion on how Nigeria could explore the U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in sourcing fund for its infrastructural development.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my brief, I explained to Ambassador Carson that it will appear most of the infrastructural development in Nigeria today is being funded by either a loan or facility and I can see that the U.S. is missing out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe responded that there is good news because the last administration approved the DFC which guarantees loans for developing countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said DFC also go further to make funding available for certain projects in developing countries and even allow them to take equity in funding of some projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I told him we are going to pursue this and I will discuss this with my colleague, the minister of Finance because what the ambassador is saying is that this is another opportunity we need to explore,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

He reiterated that the meeting with Carson, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. afforded him the opportunity to present a number of social, economic and security issues relating to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The minister said after a hectic but successful and fruit engagements in the U.S., he was surprised over another fake report by same online publication attempting to write off the trip.<\/p>\n

He said the online report with the headline \u201cBuhari\u2019s Minister, Lai Mohammed Returns To Nigeria After Fruitless U.S. Trip, Shunned By Twitter Executives, American Media, \u2019\u2019is fake, irresponsible and falls short of media ethic standards\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

The two reports, according to the minister, were examples of the danger that fake news and unregulated social media portend for the country.<\/p>\n

He said the reports also justified the position of the Federal Government to regulate the social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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