The desperation continues:

Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, has hired two American lobbying and public relations firms to plant opinion article favourable to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in American newspapers, PREMIUM TIMES can report today.
Mr. Malami’s action came to light more than five years after this newspaper exposed the Goodluck Jonathan government for spending several thousand dollars on arranging interviews for administration’s officials on U.S. media outlets.
Officials at the Nigerian embassy in Washington have always wondered why administration officials preferred to waste public funds on American lobbyists rather than take advantage of the resources at the country’s diplomatic mission there.
“One of our jobs is to relate with American institutions on behalf of our country, but we are hardly used,” one embassy official said, asking not to be named for fear of being victimised. “We have extensive contacts within the media here . So why our people keep wasting money on hiring lobbyists remain unclear.”
Investigations by this newspaper showed that in the latest case, Mr. Malami, in May this year, verbally contracted a Nigerian public relations firm, Channel Koos, to help him identify American firms that could insert pro-Buhari opinion article in a major U.S. publication.
nvestigations by this newspaper showed that in the latest case, Mr. Malami, in May this year, verbally contracted a Nigerian public relations firm, Channel Koos, to help him identify American firms that could insert pro-Buhari opinion article in a major U.S. publication.
The article, Mr. Malami demanded, must showcase the administration’s ‘reforms’.
It is unclear how much the minister paid Channel Koos. But the company spent $8,000 of its earning on hiring two U.S. firms to deliver on the project.
The company hired Mount Olive LLC, a Maryland-based PR firm owned by Nigerian-American businessman, Olufemi Soneye, according to details submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice in compliance with the US Foreign Agents Registrations Act (FARA).
Mount Olive in turn subcontracted the job to Prime Policy, a Delaware Corporation, for $5,000. According to the signed agreement between the two firms, Prime Policy was mandated to draft and place “an opinion editorial for the Nigerian Attorney General”.
Details seen by PREMIUM TIMES suggests that the Buhari government awarded the PR contract to “inform the international community about reforms in Nigeria, regarding the rule of law.”
“The agreement is oral stating that Mount Olive LLC should help arrange an op-ed for the Attorney General of Nigeria in a major US newspaper,” the filings by Mr. Soneye said.
“The op-ed is to inform the international community about reforms in Nigeria, regarding the rule of law. The fees is $8000 of which $5000 was to be paid to Prime Policy to market and $3000 for Mount Olive.
“The consultant firm, Channel Koos is working with the Attorney general’s Office as a media consultant locally. It is controlled by the Nigerian government. I was engaged to handle the international media engagements for Mount Olive. The process will be financed by the government to inform the international community about progress in the fight against corruption and rule of law.”
Mr. Soneye explains
Further explaining the reason for the contract, Mr Soneye said the Nigerian government decided to commission the drafting and circulation of the opinion article “in response to allegations of human rights abuses” against the current administration by international organisations.
Curiously however, he added that the opinion article was yet to be published, four months after payment was finalised and the contract was said to have been concluded.
Mr Soneye’s explanation was communicated in an email he sent to PREMIUM TIMES regarding the contract.
“Mount Olive is a duly registered PR, Communications firm in the state of Maryland. We duly received an article for publication on behalf of the AGF for publication in international media in response to some allegation by some international organization’s criticism of the administration’s human rights abuse, according to the brief. The brief was from a third party and not directly from the AGF.
“We negotiated for $8,000 of which $3,000 was paid to us at Mount Olives and the rest $5,000 went to the firm (Prime Policy).

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They don't disappoint. We have always knew they are bloody corrupt, filled with nepotism n bigotry,but some stupid idiotic pigs of buhari will tell u his a fuccking saint. Fuccking bollocks!

Buhari the terrorist....... FREE LEAH SHARIBU!

Na America the idiat they rule of na America they suffer from the useless policies of this lifeless cow?

We saw the poorly scripted one they planted in that useless" Forbes Africa " 10 days ago ..total waste of money

Efforts to bring life to the lifeless one and his dead regime? They should at least be honest rather than keep playing hanky-panky.

They know no other way though, a government of liars, cheats, thieves and fraudulent forgers! Tueh!