{"id":8801,"date":"2018-03-13T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8801"},"modified":"2018-03-13T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:43:11","slug":"8801","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/8801\/","title":{"rendered":"NGRSenate just passed the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8722\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/468C4360-1C02-46AF-A7D5-9BB6AE0332BE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/468C4360-1C02-46AF-A7D5-9BB6AE0332BE.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/468C4360-1C02-46AF-A7D5-9BB6AE0332BE-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/468C4360-1C02-46AF-A7D5-9BB6AE0332BE-100x67.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/>The Nigerian Senate @NGRSenate just passed the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill!<\/p>\n<p>After two years of hard work, the bill has now successfully scaled the two houses of Nigeria&#8217;s National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Assent is next!<\/p>\n<p>The bill, a product of the 2014 Internet Freedom Forum, was in 2016 sponsored by Hon @emekaujam at the House of Representatives and was successfully passed at the @HouseNGR in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>3 months later, the @NGRSenate concurred with its sister house and passed the bill!<\/p>\n<p>#DigitalRights #InternetFreedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Senate @NGRSenate just passed the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill! 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The bill, a product of the 2014 Internet Freedom Forum, was in 2016 sponsored by Hon @emekaujam at the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[318],"class_list":["post-8801","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NGRSenate just passed the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/8801\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NGRSenate just passed the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nigerian Senate @NGRSenate just passed the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill! 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