Silencing Dissenting Voices
Despite the court ruling on Thursday, November 14th declaring that APC has no governorship candidate in Bayelsa election tomorrow, November 16th, INEC has confirmed that the APC will participate in the governorship election. INEC Federal Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Festus Okoye, on Friday, November 15th stated that the court ruling does not say APC should not […]
Use your voice!
The Senate on Tuesday, November 5th reintroduced the bill to regulate social media. The bill, ‘Protection of Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill, 2019’ was sponsored by Mohammed Sani Musa. Our existing laws are sufficient to address all possible crimes in using social media, why do we need to create new ones to silence dissenting voices? Active citizens! If you value […]
#JalingoIsInnocent
The trial of Agba Jalingo, publisher of CrossRiverWatch continued this week. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. Despite his ill health, Justice Simon Amobeda refused to grant him bail stating Section 161(2)(c) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (2015) relied on by the defence counsel will only avail if the accused has been in […]
#KeepFisayoSafe
Nigerians on social media reacted to the alleged plan to arrest Fisayo Soyombo for his undercover investigation exposing corruption in the Nigerian Police and Nigerian Correctional Service and called for his protection, saying no journalist should be prosecuted for doing his work. The first of the three-part investigation exposed how Nigerian policemen “pervert the course of justice in their quest for […]