•CP Sokoto State, Hayatu Shafa The Sokoto State Police Command has cautioned political parties and their supporters against violence, hate speech, disinformation, and other actions that could threaten the peaceful conduct of the 2027 general elections. The Commissioner of Police, Hayatu Shafa, issued the warning yesterday during a meeting with...
Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has launched a massive “Show of Force” across strategic flashpoints in the nation’s capital. Police issued a stern warning today to political actors and hate-speech peddlers that no individual’s victory is worth any human life. The operation, ordered by the...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned broadcasters, online publishers, bloggers and other participants in Nigeria’s rapidly expanding information ecosystem against the use of their platforms to spread misinformation, hate speech, inflammatory material and other content capable of undermining peaceful elections. The warning come...
•National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria (NHRC) The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr. Tony Ojukwu (SAN), has urged the federal government to confront the deeper drivers of recurring violence poverty, inequality and hate speech warning that failure to address these root causes will sustain cycles of kil...
•Julius Malema A South African court has found opposition politician, Julius Malema, guilty of hate speech for telling his supporters at a 2022 rally that they should “never be scared to kill.” Malema, the firebrand leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, has long been criticised by South Africa’s white minority for his radical [&...
•Former PM and opposition leader, Succes Masra A court in Chad yesterday jailed former prime minister and opposition leader Succes Masra for 20 years, convicting him of hate speech, xenophobia and having incited a massacre. The court in N’Djamena jailed Masra, one of President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno’s fiercest critics, for his role in inciti...
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