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Emmanuel Onwubiko: Democracy, free speech and Lai Mohammed

As a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and as an observer, all that you need to do to validate the opening statement of this piece is to look around your environment to behold the huge burdens of food insecurity, mass poverty, insecurity of lives and property, collapsing infrastructures and the clear absence of the political will on the part of the civil and political authorities and even the law enforcement authorities to comply with the global best practices on the critical issues of...

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Any other matter with respect to which it is empowered to make laws in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. Any matter not included in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Constitution; Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the National Assembly or a House of Assembly shall not, in relation to any criminal offence whatsoever, have power to make any law which shall have retrospective effect.”

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*The Nigerian Cybercrime Act 2015 prescribes the death penalty for an offence committed against a system or network that has been designated critical national infrastructure of Nigeria that results in the death of an individual ; *Outlaws Cyber-stalking and Cyber-bullying and prescribes punishment ranging from a fine of not less than N2 million or imprisonment for a term of not less than 1 year or to both fine and imprisonment, up to a term of not less than 10 years or a fine of not less than N25 million or to both fine and imprisonment; depending on the severity of the offence;

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