CSTR2:

This law is a military law.
That is why it is referred to the head of state.
The president is not a head of state.

You cannot arrest a journalist doing his job.
Trump would have jailed the whole of CNN.

alezzy13:


*Sigh*

Another Trump asslicker. Trump's behavior is worse than an African dictator. It's the strong institutions that have helped keep him in check, and just barely.

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

12Monkeys:


Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree No. 4,1984


Drafted on March 29,1984, Decree No. 4 was the most dreaded, most repressive and the last press law enacted in Nigeria. It was promulgated during the military regime of Major General Buhari which did not take kindly to press criticisms.

The law was drafted to punish authors of false statements and reports that exposed the Buhari administration and or its officials to ridicule or contempt.

Section 1, sub-sections (i), (ii) and (iii) of the law - the most formidable section - provided that:
Any person who publishes in any form, whether written or otherwise, any message,rumour, report or statement, being a message, rumour, statement or report which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Military Government or the Government of a state or public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree.

Any station for wireless telegraphy which conveys or transmits any sound or visual message, rumour, report or statement, being a message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Government or the Government of a state or a public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree.

It shall be an offence under this Decree for a newspaper or wireless telegraphy station in Nigeria to publish or transmit any message, rumour, report or statement which is false in any material particular stating that any public officer has in any manner been engaged in corrupt practices or has in any manner comiptly enriched himself or any other person {Gazette, 1984).


The law also conferred on the Head of State the power to ban a newspaper and to revoke the license of a wireless telegraph station in any part of the federation if such action was construed to be in the interest of the nation.

Section 2, sub-sections (i) and (ii) of the law provided that:

Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted circulation in Nigeria of a newspaper is or may be detrimental to the interest of the federation or any part thereof, he may by order published in the Gazette, prohibit the circulation in the federation or in any part thereof, as the case may require, of that newspaper; and, unless any other period is prescribed in the code, the prohibition shall continue for a period of twelve months unless sooner revoked or extended, as the case may require.

Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted existence in Nigeria of any wireless telegraphy station is detrimental to the interest of the federation or any part thereof, he may by an order published in the Gazette (a) revoke the license to such wireless telegraphy station under the provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1961; or (b) order the closure or forfeiture to the Federal Military Government, as the case may be, of the wireless telegraphy station concerned (Gazette 1984).

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

CSTR2:

This law is a military law.
That is why it is referred to the head of state.
The president is not a head of state.

You cannot arrest a journalist doing his job.
Trump would have jailed the whole of CNN.

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

Patrioticman007:
This is what we call fake news. In this type of scenarios, its either the journalist wants cheap popularity or the Office of NSA spin doctors, want to gain public sympathy & support, once they expect a counter attack.

Let's do some analytical reasoning, who stands to benefit from the hashtag #LeaveSamOgundipeAlone# JournalismIsNotACrime, ?. We don't have to heat up the polity, with Corona virus at hand, let's stop fake news.

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

Jflex07:
Shit hole country!

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

VillageParrot:


http://www.signalng.com/breaking-dss-moves-to-arrest-ogundipe-journalist-who-leaked-nsas-letter-on-abba-kyari/

Chidi Odinkalu
@ChidiOdinkalu



https://mobile.twitter.com/ChidiOdinkalu/status/1233709299509211136

Gayigaskia:


Is America also shit hole? Because same shit happening here

Vulcan24:
i had earlier stated my reservations about this story of CoS and NSA.

writing about administrative hegemony isn't journalism, and particularly attaching a classified internal memo to it is really not in national interest

What purpose has this piece of information achieve if not dissention among staffers of the affected persons and disgust in Nigerians.

Every administrator understands the bureaucracy in policy implementation and red tape.

Did it not occur to him that such issues might be resolved internally and not even debatable in the public domain ? overzealousness I see here,

Let public official publicise their discontent at work or when approached by journalist, journalist have no business second guessing govt business done in the confines of their respected offices.

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper

tsephanyah:
Good in the interest of national security. Some things are too sensitive to be on paper