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    A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana has warned the Senate that the controversy surrounding the budget padding scandal will not end soon. According to Falana, the matter will not be swept under the carpet. The senior lawyer said this during the keynote address he delivered at the interactive session organized by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), held in Lagos on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

The National Broadcasting Commission over the years has been sanctioning and imposing fines on broadcast media houses over the views or comments of guests viewed to have violated regulations.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled against the provisions that grant the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission the authority to impose fines

In July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara, examined the raids on villages, abductions and murders that have plagued swaths of the country. Notably, it included interviews with so-called bandits, who described their violent actions and laid out their grievances.

The debate gets to the heart of a question facing all democracies: when, if ever, should the government impose limits on media?