July 26, 2026
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SERAP Urges Buhari To Probe Attack On Obi, Stop Govs From Targeting Oppositions

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LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari “to direct the Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba to promptly, thoroughly, and transparently investigate the reported attack on the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, after a rally in Katsina state, and other cases of election-related intimidation, harassment and violence across…

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Court Throws Out SERAP’s Suit Challenging FG’s Twitter Ban, Award N100,000 Fine

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LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a case challenging the federal government’s directive to broadcast stations to delete the Twitter handles. The suit was instituted by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) following the directive of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) stopping broadcast from using Twitter after the…

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Twitter Ban: ECOWAS Court Merges Omirhobo’s Suit, Other Three Against Nigerian Govt

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LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President of ECOWAS Court Hon. Justice Gberi-bè Ouattara (Côte d’Ivoire) on Friday, 9 July, 2021 consolidated  Barrister Malcolm Omirhobo’s Suit and three other  suits contesting  the indefinite suspension Twitter by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja equally  renewed its interim order barring the Federal Government of…

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ECOWAS Court Lacks Jurisdiction To Criminalize Twitter Suspension- FG

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LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has told the ECOWAS court that it lacked the jurisdiction to criminalise the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria as the suspension of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria is not a right recognised under any treaty enforceable by the ECOWAS court.   The Federal government stated this in a preliminary…

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Twitter Ban: Group Drags Buhari To ECOWAS Court

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LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter, and the escalating repression of human rights, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, access…

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