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23 Apr 2024, 12:05 pm by Jillian C. York
On several occasions, the Nigerian Government has made attempts to pressure and even subvert CSOs and to single out certain CSOs for special adverse treatment. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 7:24 am by Jocelyn Bosse
The Court found that even though Ferragamo’s purpose was commercial, the aim of the communication was merely descriptive, and therefore would not cause undue prejudice.Data PrivacyKatfriend Bibitayo Emmanuel Ojo (DataPro Limited) explored the relationship between data privacy rights of citizens and government's duties around national security, in light of the recent Nigerian Federal High Court judgment in Incorporated Trustees of Laws and Rights Awareness Initiative v… [read post]
” Bobrisky’s conviction and corresponding sentence have been met with significant outrage by many Nigerians, who believe that Bobrisky is being singled out by the government due to her transgender identity. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 7:53 am by Dan Farber
Corruption pervades the daily lives of Nigerians. [read post]
These developments are a result of the Nigerian federal government’s investigations into the platform. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 5:24 am by Beatrice Yahia
 Nigerian students taken by gunmen in a mass abduction in the north-western town of Kuriga earlier this month have been freed “unharmed,” officials say. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 11:30 am by Hudson Hongo
“Unduly restricting the ability of Nigerians to report, gather, and disseminate opinions and information has no place in a democracy,” a department spokesperson wrote. [read post]
24 Feb 2024, 1:53 pm by INFORRM
The case, filed by MRA, concerned the violations of rights to life and free speech of the Nigerian reporters and other media workers murdered over the last decades. [read post]
MRA claimed that Nigerian media professionals’ rights to life and freedom of expression were repeatedly violated by the government. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 11:30 pm by Chijioke Okorie
As someone asked: what would a government with the power of compulsory acquisition of copyright-protected works have done to the works of controversial authors such as Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa? [read post]
3 Feb 2024, 4:51 am by INFORRM
Alapinni has been providing legal defense in the cases that challenge Nigerian blasphemy laws; one such case is Commissioner of Police v. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 5:54 am by Steven Katz
Second, the IAA provision also specifies that covered operations include those conducted by a “foreign government. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 6:00 am by Chile Eboe-Osuji
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]
The suspension order issued by the Special Advisor to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, is in tandem with the president’s commitment to “uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in the management of the commonwealth of Nigerians. [read post]
The Dutch Court of Appeal in 2021 reaffirmed the lower court ruling and ruled in favor of four Nigerian farmers and Friends of the Earth, an environmental organization, in a legal dispute against Shell, following which the energy giant in the Netherlands agreed to pay EUR 15 million to the affected Nigerians in December 2022. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 6:00 am by Evangelina Cantu
Scammers are getting more sophisticated since the advent of Nigerian Prince Scams. [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 10:22 am by Chukwuma Okoli
One of the points he mentioned was the need for Nigeria to also ratify the Singapore Convention on Mediation as it did with the 1958 New York Convention, which the Nigerian government has now done. [read post]
The government at the time called for a forensic audit of the central bank amid reforms. [read post]