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The president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, have been sued over a “gag order” stopping journalists and broadcast stations from reporting details of terrorist attacks and victims.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development, who filed the lawsuit also joined the National Broadcasting Commission as a defendant.

NBC had asked journalists, television, and radio stations in Nigeria to stop “glamourising and giving too many details on the nefarious activities of terrorists and kidnappers” during their daily newspaper reviews.

In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/725/2021 filed last Friday, SERAP and PTCIJ are seeking, “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the government of President Buhari, the NBC, and Mr Lai Muhammed or any other persons from imposing fines or other sanctions on broadcast stations for carrying out their constitutional duties of reporting details of terrorist attacks and victims during daily newspaper reviews.

“An order to compel and direct the NBC and Mr Lai Muhammed to withdraw the directive asking journalists and broadcast stations to stop reporting details on terrorist attacks and victims, as the directive is unlawful and inconsistent with the Nigerian Constitution of 1999 [as amended], and the country’s international human rights obligations.

“An order setting aside the directive on reporting of terrorist attacks and victims, for being inconsistent and incompatible with sections 22 and 39 of the Nigerian Constitution, Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

“Unless the reliefs sought are urgently granted by this Honourable Court, the directive by the NBC and Mr Lai Muhammed would be used to impermissibly restrict Nigerians’ rights to freedom of expression, access to information, media freedom, and victims’ right to justice and effective remedies.”


SERAP and PTCIJ argued that the failure by the regime of Buhari to direct the NBC to withdraw its directive on reporting of terrorist attacks and victims violates sections 5[a] and [b], 147 and 148 of the Nigerian Constitution, Code of Conduct for Public Officers [Fifth Schedule Part 1], and Oath of office [Seventh Schedule] of the Constitution.



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CNN, BBC, Reuters, AFP, Aljazeera and others generate billions of dollars every year by mostly reporting insecurities, violence and crises all around the world. But in this 21st century, our own government is still gagging local media channels from reporting freely like their mainstream counterpart? They want them to operate like that useless mumu station called NTA.
Ko le werk!

Very soon now people will even be afraid of talking inside their living room.

He is a disgrace to old age

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It's wrong to report those news because we don't want you to know what is happening.

AKA NIECE AKA NLPOLICEWOMAN LETS HAVE YOUR SAY BRUH

The worst president in the history of this nation.

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richiemcgold:
CNN, BBC, Reuters, AFP, Aljazeera and others generate billions of dollars every year by mostly reporting insecurities, violence and crises all around the world. But in this 21st century, our own government is still gagging local media channels from reporting freely like their mainstream counterpart? They want them to operate like that mumu station called NTA.

That word NTA you just typed don spoil my mood for today

most useless president with the most foolish information minister ever in the history of this country.