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Outrage Greets Senate’s Death Penalty For Hate Speech

November 13, 2019 3:28 am

The Senate came under fire yesterday for proposing the Hate Speech Prohibition Bill, which seeks to criminalise the offence with death as a penalty.

The bill, which passed first reading at the plenary yesterday, seeks to establish a federal government agency to check hate speech.

But senior lawyers, activists and a chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, who spoke with THISDAY, condemned attempts to make hate speech a capital offence and urged the National Assembly to tread carefully on the issue.

The bill, sponsored by a former Senate spokesperson, who is now the Deputy Senate Whip, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, is …

Cautious Optimism Greets Oil Discovery In Gongola Basin

October 13, 2019 2:23 am

Environmental Challenges, Insecurity, Cost Of Production Bane Of Further Exploration
Commerciality Of Find Critical – Experts

The news about the possible discovery of oil in the Gongola Basin of Northeast Nigeria was welcomed with strict and cautious optimism from experts.

Exciting as the news of the discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the Kolmani River II Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin may be, stakeholders, yesterday, insisted that the development would only be meaningful after the volumetric of the hydrocarbon is determined.

They equally noted that festering insecurity, environmental issues, dearth of infrastructure and cost of production were major …

Jubril, Buhari’s Impostor greets Oba Tejuoso at 81

February 19, 2019 3:45 pm

Jubril Al-Sudani, being paraded here and there in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari extends his best wishes to His Royal Majesty, Oba Adedapo Tejuoso, Karunwi III, on the special occasion of his 81st birthday.