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Police in Nigeria have forcefully dispersed the #June12thProtest taking place in Lagos and Abuja.
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Activists called nationwide protests to denounce rising insecurity following the increasing abductions and killings in Nigeria, as well as the recent #TwitterBanNigeria.
There were also #June12thProtest taking place in Abuja and Ondo states.
False Dichotomy Between an App and a Country
A pro-regime apologist said he’d rather lose an app (i.e., Twitter) than lose a country. Nonsense! That’s called a false dilemma (or a false dichotomy) in logic. A false dilemma imposes an unnatural and deceptive limit on options. You
A pro-regime apologist said he’d rather lose an app (i.e., Twitter) than lose a country. Nonsense! That’s called a false dilemma (or a false dichotomy) in logic. A false dilemma imposes an unnatural and deceptive limit on options. You
can have both an app and a country—like many countries do. You can lose a country without an app—such as Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, etc. And you can simultaneously lose an app and a country, such as Buhari’s Nigeria seems pigheadedly moving towards. But if your country’s fabric
is so brittle that it can be dismantled by the mere dissident chatter of disaffected citizens on an app, then you have no country to lose in the first place. If you really want a country, go do some work to have one so that mere insurgent chatter on an app can’t undo it. Start
This @elrufai tweet clearly illustrates the dangerous perception folks like him have of "power" & "control" in a constitutional democracy governed as a republic. Though his opinion is not shared in the op-ed, the tweet shows exactly where @GovKaduna leans. Thread***@SERAP
@NebojsaMalic's op-ed praises "BASED" Nigeria for teaching the US how to respond to "tech tyranny" and compares Trump's "toothless" response to his #twitterban with Nigeria's 2 day-rapid response ban of @Twitter. @elrufai seems to agree with pride! rt.com/op-ed/525727-n…
@NebojsaMalic op-ed is problematic on many levels. First, the assumption that #TwitterBanNigeria could be a teachable moment for the #USA or is indicative of the responsiveness of the @MBuhari govt to ANY aspect of governance is at best ignorant! vanguardngr.com/2021/03/insecu…
I tried to register an organization in 2018 but the Nigerian government said “no” because the name of the Org. had the word “lesbian” in it. That was a blatant violation of my constitutional right to freely associate and freedom of expression. When I sued the govt. and..
the High Court sided with the government, citing the discriminatory section 4 of the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act signed by @GEJonathan , Nigerians cheered. I remember people saying “no space for this in Nigeria”. I laughed cuz discrimination be like breakfast
It goes round and everyone will eventually get their share. The truth is that when we allow the government to discriminate against people and deny them their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms simply because we do not like them or agree with them, we inevitably…
