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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development have taken the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , and the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to court over the order to stop journalists and broadcast stations from reporting details of terrorist attacks and victims.
The groups also sought an order compelling and directing the NBC and Lai Mohammed to withdraw the directive asking journalists and broadcast stations to stop reporting details on terrorist attacks and victims, noting that the directive was unlawful and inconsistent with the Nigerian Constitution of 1999 as amended, and the country’s international human rights obligations.
The suit read in part, “The NBC and Mr Lai Muhammed lack the power and authority to restrict the ability of journalists and broadcast stations to carry out their constitutional duties and to unlawfully impose penalties such as fines and other sanctions on any journalists and broadcast stations for reporting on details of terrorist attacks and victims in the country.
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