Nigeria: Fresh Awareness Campaign Begins On FOI Act
[This Day] Series of sensitisation workshops aimed at familiarising various sectors of the society with the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act and increasing their usage of the law are ongoing, a statement issued by Media Rights Agenda (MRA), has stated.
ACT Practice Test at Sugar Grove library
SUGAR GROVE?ACT Practice Test will be held at the Sugar Grove Library on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Check-in and seating starts at 8 a.m.; the test starts promptly at 8:30 a.m.
SEDITION ACT VIOLATES FREEDOM OF SPEECH, SAYS LAWYER
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 3 (Bernama) -- The Sedition Act 1948 violates freedom ofspeech guaranteed under the Federal Constitution, the Court of Appeal here heardtoday.Submitting before a three-man panel of the court, lawyer M. Manoharan saidthe Act was unconstitutional because it (the Act) criminalised conduct that wasotherwise a legitimate exercise of a citizen''s constitutionally protected rightto ...
Content Industry Not So Open to OPEN Act
While supporters of an alternative approach to curbing online piracy on foreign websites remain hopeful that it could be the starting point for future negotiations on the issue, so far the legislation remains a nonstarter for the content industry.
House Votes to Repeal CLASS Act
The House of Representatives voted today to repeal a lifeless provision of the president?s health care reform law, known as the CLASS Act. By a vote of 267-159, lawmakers passed H.R. 1173, Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011. Twenty-eight Democrats joined a unanimous...