{"id":28304,"date":"2020-08-05T18:43:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28304"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:43:27","slug":"shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Sani reacts to N5m hate speech fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Shehu Sani, former Kaduna State lawmaker has reacted to the increase in the penalty for hate speech by the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, reviewed the penalty for hate speech in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed at the unveiling ceremony of the reviewed Nigeria Broadcasting Code organized by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) in Lagos said the penalty for hate speech has increased from N500,000 to N5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Sani on his Twitter handle, described the new penalty as a means for the Buhari government to gain revenue, describing it as the new \u2018oil revenue\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His tweet read: \u201c With N5 million as fine for hate speech, we have discovered an alternative to oil revenue.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Shehu Sani, former Kaduna State lawmaker has reacted to the increase in the penalty for hate speech by the Nigerian government. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, reviewed the penalty for hate speech in Nigeria. Mohammed at the unveiling ceremony of the reviewed Nigeria Broadcasting Code organized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,195],"class_list":["post-28304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-shehu-sani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shehu Sani reacts to N5m hate speech fine - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Shehu Sani, former Kaduna State lawmaker has reacted to the increase in the penalty for hate speech by the Nigerian government.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shehu Sani reacts to N5m hate speech fine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Shehu Sani, former Kaduna State lawmaker has reacted to the increase in the penalty for hate speech by the Nigerian government.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-05T18:43:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/shehu-sani-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"653\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"365\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Shehu Sani reacts to N5m hate speech fine\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-05T18:43:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine\"},\"wordCount\":130,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/shehu-sani-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Shehu sani\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/shehu-sani-reacts-to-n5m-hate-speech-fine\",\"name\":\"Shehu Sani reacts to N5m hate speech fine - 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