Hate Speech Bill

The sponsor of the National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speech (Establishment) Bill 2019 and Senate Deputy Chief Whip, Sabi Abdullahi, has assured that the death penalty will now be expunged from it. The bill prescribes the…

Despite growing international concern over proposed Hate Speech Bill, its sponsor, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has said it was in the best interest of Nigeria. The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, had announced Nigeria’s…

Despite growing international concern and threat of sanction over proposed Hate Speech Bill, its sponsor, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said it was in the best interest of Nigeria. The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo,…

THE Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday expressed concern over the hate speech bill in the Senate, saying that draconian legislations have no place in Nigeria’s democracy. The guild also noted that the dwindling economy of the…

A former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has knocked the senate for the introduction of the Hate Speech Bill, saying it contradicts the principles of fundamental human rights and tantamount to pursuing…

The Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, on Thursday, described the hate speech bill before the senate as draconian and an attempt to turn the country's democracy to dictatorship. The governor, however, asked the media in Nigeria to…

Activities at the premises of the national assembly were on Tuesday partially disrupted by the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) which took it's protest against the Social Media and Hate Speech Bills to the national…

A coalition of Civil Society Organisations against human rights violations on Wednesday warned the Senate to jettison the bills which seek to regulate the social media and curb 'hate speech'. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, the…

One of the concerned members of the House of Representatives, Hon Musa Bagos, on Monday, assured Nigerians that the proposed 'Hate speech bill' now before the Senate would be shut down in the House when transmitted for concurrence. Hon…

The Federal Government, on Wednesday, appeared to distance itself from the bill under consideration in the Senate, which seeks the death penalty for hate speech, as it believes that laws already exist on the subject. Briefing State House…