{"id":2760,"date":"2023-08-22T00:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T00:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2023-08-22T00:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T00:45:41","slug":"why-i-will-not-tell-lies-as-information-minister-idris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/why-i-will-not-tell-lies-as-information-minister-idris\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Will Not Tell Lies As Information Minister \u2013 Idris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The newly appointed Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said the ministry will not tell lies on behalf of the government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking to the press after his inauguration, Idris said the President has given him a matching order to speak the truth, which is now a new covenant between the government and the people of Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, \u201cAs a minister of Information and National Orientation, I have the duty of telling Nigerians the true picture of what transpired about the various programmes and projects of the administration in all sectors.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cBeing truthful and effective as minister of Information is essential to engender the trust of the people on various programmes and projects of the administration.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said the ministry will not tell lies on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}