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23 Apr 2024, 12:05 pm
The government of Nigeria is relying on laws like the Cybercrime Act, Criminal Code Act and many more to stifle online speech. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 4:21 am
The Applicant argued that this provision violated the fundamental right to privacy guaranteed under Section 37 of the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 3:17 pm
These developments are a result of the Nigerian federal government’s investigations into the platform. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 4:47 am
The Canadian government pledged this week to make equal contributions to groups supporting either Israeli or Palestinian women who have been sexually abused during the war. [read post]
10 Mar 2024, 5:04 pm
On 7 March 2024, the Federal Court of Australia dismissed a second application for an extension of the limitation period in the case of Tucker v McKee [2024] FCA 199. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 1:53 pm
Citing the Media Rights Agenda (MRA), IFEX reports on the recent landmark ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja that ordered Nigeria’s Federal Government to investigate attacks on journalists, prosecute the attackers, and ensure journalists’ safety and access to effective remedies. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 10:00 am
Nigerian press freedom group Media Rights Agenda (MRA) filed the lawsuit at the heart of the February 16 ruling in October 2021 against Nigeria’s federal government. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 7:09 pm
Chamber of Commerce, an opponent of third-party litigation funding, highlighted the terms of Therium’s agreement with Perry and Fraser last summer in a renewed proposal to a federal judicial committee to require disclosure of funding deals in all federal civil litigation. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 1:58 am
It has also taken as its mandate to hold the government accountable for protecting the people of Nigeria from human rights violations. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 11:30 pm
Section 30 (1) of Nigeria’s new Copyright Act 2022 provides as follows: (1) For the purpose of Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, copyright shall be deemed to be movable property and shall be transferable by way of assignment, testamentary disposition or operation of law. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 6:30 am
In the crowded menagerie of the U.S. government’s targeted sanctions programs, different sanctions do different things. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 6:00 am
In entrancing courtroom advocacy on Jan. 11-12, lawyers for South Africa argued that the Israel Defence Forces have been committing genocide in Gaza since October, encouraged by inflammatory public tirades of command officials in the Israeli government, and that the Israeli government had either condoned or failed to punish influential Israeli officials or personalities who had engaged in direct and public incitement to commit genocide. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 8:45 am
The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission established by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 4:03 am
The arrest comes on the heels of a leaked memo which revealed that Edu requested the Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, to transfer public funds of about N985 million from the National Social Investment office account to the personal account of Bridget Oniyelu, the accountant of a federal government poverty intervention project called Grants for Vulnerable Groups which was under Edu’s ministry. [read post]
23 Dec 2023, 3:43 am
Federal Republic of NigeriaDecision Date: October 23, 2023 The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held that provisions of Nigeria’s Broadcasting Code violated the right to freedom of expression protected by the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. [read post]
14 Dec 2023, 12:28 am
June: In Nigeria, the Cross Rivers State Carnival Commission and the Cross Rivers State government were found liable for copyright infringement by the Court of Appeal, which upheld a 2018 Federal High Court judgement that awarded N500million to the Collecting Management Organisation, the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), despite the COSON's issues with the NCC over its lack of proper licencing as a collecting body. [read post]
4 Dec 2023, 2:21 am
The civil society organisation has called on the Government to consider the privacy issues associated with a central bank digital currency more deeply before proceeding. [read post]
23 Nov 2023, 8:12 am
Seventy-eighth sessionSecond CommitteeAgenda item 16 (h)Macroeconomic policy questions: promotion of inclusiveand effective international cooperation on tax matters atthe United Nations Nigeria:* (* On behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group ofAfrican States) revised draft resolution Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperationat the United Nations The General Assembly,Guided by the purposes and principles… [read post]
15 Nov 2023, 12:49 pm
” The NLC however insists that it had not been duly notified of the court order filed against it by the federal government. [read post]
29 Oct 2023, 4:13 am
Nigerian Broadcasting CommissionDecision Date: May 10, 2023 The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria held that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had violated the right to a fair hearing in imposing fines on broadcast stations. [read post]
