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FG orders security agencies to monitor social media posts of ‘prominent Nigerians’

  • Date of Occurrence
    January 25, 2018
  • State/Country
    Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
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The order was given at a security meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja.

Mansur Dan Ali, minister of defence, had described the trend of hate speech on social media as worrisome.

“Relevant security agencies should as a matter of urgency tackle the propagation of hate speeches through the social media, particularly by some notable Nigerians,” Ali said.

The development comes one year after Lai Mohammed, minister of information, vowed that the current administration would not regulate social media.

“We have said it before and we want to re-state it: the federal government has no immediate or long-term plan to stifle press freedom. Even the social media, with its warts and all, will neither be regulated nor have its operations tampered with,” he had said in January 2017.

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  • Date of Occurrence
    2018-01-25
  • State/Country
    Federal Capital Territory
  • Perpetrator
    The Nigerian President
  • Legal Foundation
    Section 39 of the 1999 constitution
  • Source
    https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-fg-orders-security-agencies-monitor-social-media-posts
Location
  • Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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  • North Central
Rights & Freedom Violated
  • Digital Closure and Surveillance
  • Freedom of Expression

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