Nigerian Minister, Northern Governor Visit Egypt To Aquire Security Platform For Monitoring People's Calls
A Nigerian minister and a governor of a northern state recently visited Egypt to get security platforms to monitor people's calls, text messages and other forms of communication. According to a security source, the minister and governor made a quick trip to the North African in a bid to find technological ways to trample on people's freedom of speech. The governor and the minister are both controversial and have also been in the news lately for the wrong reasons. " A minister and a governor went to Egypt this week to get a security platform for monitoring calls of citizens. It was a really quick trip ," the source said. The clampdown on free speech in Nigeria has become heightened under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Towards the end of 2015, a Petition Bill targeting online and print media as well as regulating social media posts was sponsored in the Senate but it was followed by a public backlash. In 2019, lawmakers introduced the National Commi...