Tag Archives: Hate Speech

Senators are enraged. Honourables are furious. For real, they don’t know what hate speech is, but they actually know what its Bill will wreak when it revolves in a reality. It’s right that hate speech is brimstone and fire that decoy social media daily, fire with potentialities of razing, and speeches with power to spark violence and result to violent …

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Country Director of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Mr. Raymond Esebagbon has said that the Hate Speech Bill currently being discussed at the National Assembly is misdirected and unnecessary. Esebagbon, a lawyer of over 25 years’ experience made his position clear at a media round table in Lagos on Validation Meeting of the Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD’s …

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Tayo Olanipekun A coalition comprising of 47 civil society organisations in Africa and other parts of the world has criticized governments’ attempts to regulate the use of social media with legislation on “hate speech” and “fake news.” The move will decrease the openness of the internet, “mask human rights violations and create barriers to long-term stability and peaceful dialogue,” the …

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Hate speech is an inevitable tool where democracy thrives. It is a means to bring to the fore opponents ineptitude in providing good governance. Even strong democracies are not spared of this devise. In recent years, hate speech has heightened with the advent of the social media. A significant reason is because activities in the cyber space are unregulated thereby …

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Dayo Emmanuel Civil society organisations under the umbrella of One Voice Coalition have reacted to the current Hate Speech Bill being debated at the National Assembly, saying it is unnecessary and an embarrassment. At a media parley themed ‘Freedom of expression and the combat of hate speech in Nigeria’ held Thursday April 12 in Lagos, Executive Director, Independent Advocacy Project, …

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The International Press Centre (IPC),based in Lagos, Nigeria, has called on the Senate to drop the proposed hate speech bill that seeks to recommend death sentence for purveyors of hate speech. 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 by hanging …

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