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The President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s growing insatiable thirst for undermining freedom of expression is gradually exposing the country to national and international ridicule ....
3 min read The threat by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to prosecute “violators” of the government’s ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria lacks legal basis, some lawyers have argued. The government, through the information minister, Lai Mohammed, had on Friday suspended Twitter operations in the country. The crackdown on Twitter came two days after the social media platform deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial tweet seen as a veiled threat of violence against the Igbo ethnic group. It is seen by many Nigerians as an attack on citizens’ right to freedom of expression and a step closer the execution of the government’s years-long ambition to impose regulations on the social media space in the country. ....
#OccupyLekki: Expect more protests, activists tell Buhari, Sanwo-Olu Sodiq Oyeleke Activists and human rights organisations have vowed not to relent in protesting against bad governance in the country despite the arrest of protesters at the Lekki tollgate. They asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to expect more protests. In their reactions to the arrest of the protesters, they warned the government against the arrest of protesters, saying that it is ant-democratic. One of them, the Youth Rights Campaign, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Adaramoye Michael, and National Secretary, Francis Nwapa, faulted the decision of the Lagos State Judicial panel to reopen the tollgate where scores of protesters were shot and allegedly killed on October 20, 2020. ....
A group under the aegis of Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has condemned the decision of the Lagos State Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS abuses to return possession of the Lekki Tollgate to the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) and has threatened to hold a fresh protest at the gate to begin by 7.am on Saturday, […] ....