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 A member of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Uduak Odudoh, to the court of law to compel the lawmaker to pay him N100 million as compensation over his illegal detention. Etete, who is also seeking an apology from the lawmaker, accused Odudoh of giving the police the order to arrest him sometime in 2020. The police had reportedly arrested and detained the young man, and consequently charged him with threat to life and defamation of character after he posted a comment against the lawmaker on Facebook. In the post, Odudoh who is representing Ikot Abasi and Easter Obolo State Constituency, was accused of representing a faction of his constituents and not his entire constituency.  It was reports that Etete said Ikot Abasi, with “ scam leaders ”, has continued to remain “underdeveloped”. According to Inibehe Effiong, Etete's counsel, Etete had deactivated his Facebook account but that was after the police had had access to the article and printed copies of it. Mr Effiong furt...

   The US President Joe Biden and other world democratic leaders need to know fully that Nigerians’ fundamental rights, especially the right to expression are under siege by their President, major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), a man with apparent conservative attitude to present-day Nigeria, a highly populated multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation. At the time of this writing, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that is somewhat modelled after the American Constitution, continues to fully guarantee the right of expression. Now, these freedoms are under threat in today’s Nigeria. Some hours after Twitter removed Buhari’s ‘abusive’ civil war tweet, he tweeted his anger in response. His regime decided to ‘indefinitely’ and/or temporarily suspend Twitter in Nigeria. Facebook equally slapped Buhari by removing his violent reference which made him more irritated. Nigerians are wondering what next he will do should his assault on the right of expression b...