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The implementation of the Freedom of information Act 2011 for the past 13 years has been described as both “challenging and work in progress.” The Solicitor General of the Federation and permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Beatrice Jeddy-Agba, stated this in Abuja Friday at a ceremony…
The official noted that the implementation of the FoI Act 2011 in the past 13 years has been both challenging and work in progress.
SCOTTISH ministers were alarmed at the prospect of their public and private lives being exposed by the advent of Freedom of Information, official records reveal. Scottish Government cabinet papers from 2005, the year FoI began north of the border, show ministers raised multiple “concerns” about the impact on them, their families and their staff. The discussion, led by then First Minister Jack McConnell, took place just days after FoI claimed the first MSP's resignation. Ministers arranged to discuss their fears with officials running the Government’s FoI unit, and demanded to ...