Tag: HATE SPEECH
Social media user who tweeted ‘Let’s kill all the Igbos’ arrested...
Police in Osun have arrested Kehinde Adekusibe over alleged violation of the social media policy on hate speech.
The 28-year-old was said to have tweeted...
Umahi’s ex-aide slumps in police custody
Godfery Chikwere, former media aide of Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi, who was arrested and detained by the police following a petition by an...
How prayer for gay people got T.B. Joshua’s Emmanuel TV suspended...
UK-based organisation OpenDemocracy has claimed responsibility for the suspension of Prophet T.B. Joshua’s YouTube channel Emmanuel TV.
The organisation said in a report posted to...
TB Joshua’s Emmanuel TV suspended from YouTube
The YouTube channel of Pastor T.B. Joshua Emmanuel TV has been suspended for allegedly propagating hate speech.
Joshua is the founder of The Synagogue Church...
Lai Mohammed denies announcing N5m hate speech fine increase
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed has denied before a court announcing an increase in the hate speech fine from N500, 000 to...
Lai Mohammed, NBC sued for raising hate speech fine to N5m
A rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has filed a legal suit against the Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed, the Federal Government and the...
DSS re-invites Mailafia
The Department of State Security (DSS) has issued a fresh invitation to a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Obadiah Mailafia...
Mailaifa ‘profusely apologised’ when called for questioning – DSS
The Department of State Services (DSS) says a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Obadiah Mailaifa “profusely apologised” when he...
Hate speech: NBC fines Nigeria Info N5m over Mailaifa’s comment
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has imposed a N5 million fine on a radio station Nigeria Info for a recent comment made by a...
Hate speech fine now alternative to oil revenue – Shehu Sani
Senator Shehu Sani has made a joke of the reviewed hate speech fine as an alternative to oil revenue.
Reacting on Wednesday to the upgrade...