LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice has served hearing notice on the Buhari government in the suit filed by SERAP and 176 Nigerians on the unlawful suspension of Twitter. The suit is fixed for 22 June 2021 for the hearing of application for interim orders, SERAP said on Twitter on Monday night. “Having…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lawyer cum human rights activist, Chief Malcom Emokiniovo Omirhobo, has dragged the President Muhammadu Buhari led-government before Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court, sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, for banning micro blogging site, Twitter. Omirhobo in a suit dated June 7, 2021 and filed through online same date, asked the court…
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…