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   "id": "https://kairosreports.com/the-files/section-24-the-text-before-and-after",
   "url": "https://kairosreports.com/the-files/section-24-the-text-before-and-after",
   "title": "Section 24, before and after: what the 2024 amendment to the Cybercrimes Act actually changed",
   "summary": "The clause most often cited against Nigerian reporters and critics was rewritten in February 2024, eight years after the first court challenge and four years after an ECOWAS Court order. Here is the text, before and after, from the government's own gazette.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-06T08:00:00.000Z",
   "date_modified": "2026-10-06T08:00:00.000Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "Tayo Omoniyi"
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    "The Files",
    "cybercrimes-act",
    "section-24",
    "press-freedom",
    "ecowas-court"
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    "source_url": "https://cert.gov.ng/ngcert/resources/CyberCrime__Prohibition_Prevention_etc__Act__2024.pdf",
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    "sources": [
     {
      "outlet": "Office of the National Security Adviser, Federal Republic of Nigeria",
      "title": "Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 with Amendment Act 2024 (consolidated, hosted by ngCERT)",
      "url": "https://cert.gov.ng/ngcert/resources/CyberCrime__Prohibition_Prevention_etc__Act__2024.pdf",
      "date": "2024",
      "locator": "Table of contents: 2015 Act pp. 3–48, Amendment Act 2024 pp. 49–55; Gazette No. 82, Vol. 102, 18 May 2015, Act No. 17; commencement 15 May 2015"
     },
     {
      "outlet": "Olumide Babalola LP",
      "title": "Amendment of Section 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc) Act 2015: A Fruit of Strategic Litigation",
      "url": "https://oblp.org/amendment-of-section-24-of-the-cybercrimes-prohibition-prevention-etc-act-2015-a-fruit-of-strategic-litigation/",
      "date": "2024",
      "locator": "Quoted text of s.24 before and after; litigation chronology",
      "note": "Disclosure: the author, Olumide Babalola, was counsel for the applicants in the challenges he describes. His account is a party's account; the statutory text he quotes matches the gazette."
     }
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    "public_interest": "Section 24 of the Cybercrimes Act is the provision most commonly invoked in police petitions against journalists and online critics in Nigeria. Readers, reporters and lawyers need the exact statutory wording before and after amendment to know what is and is not an offence. The text is public law reproduced from the government's own publication; the individuals named are the judges and counsel who appear in the public record of the case, named only in those capacities.",
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    "source_line": "Office of the National Security Adviser, Federal Republic of Nigeria · 2024 · Table of contents: 2015 Act pp. 3–48, Amendment Act 2024 pp. 49–55; Gazette No. 82, Vol. 102, 18 May 2015, Act No. 17; commencement 15 May 2015"
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