Group calls for the ban of Facebook in Nigeria, protests in Abuja (Video)
An unidentified group has called for the ban of Facebook in Nigeria, the group which consisted of less than 12 men were seen protesting at the Ministry of Justice in Abuja.
An unidentified group has called for the ban of Facebook in Nigeria, the group which consisted of less than 12 men were seen protesting at the Ministry of Justice in Abuja.
According to the convener of the group, the group has submitted its petition to the Ministry of Justice, and they would go to the Ministry of Information to substantiate the case and ensure that Facebook is permanently banned in Nigeria.
He further stated that the request for Facebook’s ban is based on the company’s censoring of posts, restriction of free speech, and limitation of followership, among other things.
He also claimed that Facebook is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy and that it should not be permitted to operate in the country.
In similar news, The senate of Akwa Ibom State University has expelled a 500-Level Student identified Iniobong Ekpo for allegedly insulting Emmanuel Udom, the state governor, on Facebook.
Ekpo was in his final year at the varsity’s agricultural engineering department when he was expelled for his 2019 Facebook post about Udom which the university described as a “derogatory and defamatory article”.
He was first suspended indefinitely in September 2020 before his expulsion via a letter dated April 9, 2021.
In the article, Ekpo, under the pseudonym “Afrosix Jaara”, accused Udom of failing to make good on a 2017 monetary reward he had pledged to the then-graduating students of the university who proved to be outstanding.
It’s 2 years and 166 days…, yet, none of the graduands received a Naira. Even the first-class graduands were unattended to when they went to his office,” Ekpo said in the 2019 article.
But in the expulsion letter delivered to him, the university said Ekpo’s article breached the matriculation oath he had signed and violated the university rules and regulations enshrined in the student information handbook.
The university also said that he was made to appear before a disciplinary committee but Ekpo denied any such hearing.
