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#SoundOff: Senate’s Hate Speech Bill – Towards A Speechless Country [MUST READ]

As the Nigerian Senate inch close to perfecting the hate speech bill, they hope to satisfy the lugubrious desire of the ruling All Progressive...

Buhari Supporter Calls For Execution Of Critics Of The Nigerian President [TWEET]

A social media user who is a supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari has called for the execution of three prominent critics of the Nigerian...

Police Arraigns 2 Young Journalists For Exposing Marijuana Use In Buhari Aide’s Factory

The Nigeria Police Force has on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, arraigned the young Editor of NewsDigest, Abuja-based online newspaper, Gidado Yushau and award-winning campus...

DSS Operatives Fires Gun Shots, Tear Gas To Disperse Pro-Sowore Protesters

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, fired gun shots and used pepper spray to disperse protesters who were gathered around the service...

Coalition Of Academics, Lawyers, Journalists Demand Immediate Release Of Sowore

A coalition of Nigerian academics, lawyers and journalists have signed a joint statement calling for the release of Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of SaharaReporters,...

DSS Misleading Nigerians On Continued Detention Of Sowore – Falana

Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has described as totally misleading, a statement by the Department of State Service, DSS, concerning the release of...

Buhari Government’s Obsession With Regulating Free Speech On Social Media [MUST READ]

On June 26, 2018, the chairman of the Nigerian Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercrime, Abdul Fatai Buhari, announced that the Nigerian government has...

Anti-Free Speech Bill Targeting Social Media Users Introduced In Nigerian Senate

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, introduced a bill that will regulate the use of social media in Nigeria. The sponsor of the...

Why Sowore May Never Regain Freedom Under President Buhari [MUST READ]

Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader and a presidential candidate in the country’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, who is being detained by state authorities on trumped-up...

Police Warn Shi’ite Sect Against Holding A Procession On October 19

The Nigerian Police Force, on Thursday, October 17, 2019, gave another warning to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, which the security outfit accused...

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