Hate speech Offenders

Hate Speech on Hangman’s Noose?0
- Analysis
- March 3, 2018
The report by The Guardian on a new bill by the Senate, which prescribes that offenders of “hate speech” will die by hanging, must have sent the chill down many spines in a country where the government led by President Muhammadu Buhari has been stridently trying to convince the restive populace that it means well.
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Hate Speech: IPC Warns Against Proposed Bill…Wants Detained Journalist Released 0
- News
- March 2, 2018
The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos-Nigeria has called on the Senate to drop the proposed hate speech bill that seeks to recommend death sentence for hate speech ‘offenders’. The bill which is being sponsored by Senate Spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi proposes that anyone found guilty of any form of hate speech could face death
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