FG sets December 2018 deadline for MDAs to comply with FOI Act

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By Michael Eboh & Tochukwu Maxwell

The Federal Government has set a December 2018 deadline for all ministries, departments and agencies, MDA, of government to publish information as required by the Freedom of Information, FOI, Act.

President Muhammadu Buhari

In a presentation made available to Vanguard, yesterday, Special Adviser to the President on Justice Reform and National Coordinator of Open Government Partnership, OGP, Mrs. Juliet Ibekaku–Nwagwu, said the Federal Ministry of Justice would be issuing a circular to the MDAs in that regard.

In the presentation made at the Lunchtime seminar on Open Government Partnership, OGP, organised by the Bureau for Public Service Reforms, BPSR and the Public and Private Development Centre, PPDC,  Ibekaku–Nwagwu further stated that the circular would also mandate the MDAs to publish all responses to recurrent FOI request on their…



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