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HATE SPEECH BILL:  A REPETITION OF EXTANT LAWS. By - Idorenyin Inoh It is no longer news that the Senate which is the only arm of government that represent the voices of over 180 million Nigerians is trying to gauge the flow of information and simultaneously duplicate other EXTANT laws . The defamation law, sedition law, official secret act etc.  are all in active service. The notion to gauge information flow under the pretext of hate speech is undemocratic, unjustifiable and as well a mockery on the judiciary because what constitutes hate speech should be defined by a competent court of jurisdiction. If one is defamed or faces character assassination, the way forward is to Head to Court. Using the perimeters of hate speech to send citizens to their early graves is demonic and lacks moral justification. If the hate speech bill come to stay as a law, it will be an international embarrassment on the image of Nigeria as a sovereign nation. The es...

Sentimental Idiocy: Blurred Vision for Appreciation.  By Patrick Ekong Sentimental reasoning clouded by outmost ignorance can destroy a group more faster than war.  What baffles and remain abstruse to me is the way some group of bad belles who has not contributed anything to the society are the ones making the most noise, calling people names even with the mistake they made in the state during the last elections. I eavesdrop recently into a conversation on radio and a certain man,  misguided as he sounded phoned in to make a comment about the issue going on in the Ministry of Niger - Delta headed by an iconic leader who has wrote his name in the sand of time in his state. The caller accused the Minister for Niger Delta affairs, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio of sticking his nose where it does not belong because HE set up panel to investigate the misappropriation of funds made for the region in the past twenty years. From all indications as well as observa...