The federal government recently increased the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5 million in the amended National Broadcasting Code.
to deter people who are willingly to violating the provision to destabilise the country.
In 2019, the minister announced the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari for the increase of the fine which was later stipulated in the amended Broadcasting Code. The minister explained that some desperate people who know that their broadcast content contains hate speech will insist that the broadcast stations should air it while they bear the cost of the fine.
He recalled that Rwandan lost 800,000 lives to hate speech while Bosnia and Cambodia equally lost thousands of lives to the menace.
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