Amended the 2015 Cybercrimes Act after ECOWAS Court ruling on Section 24 — narrows the controversial 'false information' clause, restores civil-liberties safeguards.
The 2024 amendment was forced by an ECOWAS Court of Justice ruling that the 2015 Cybercrimes Act's Section 24 (criminalising 'false information' online with up to 3 years imprisonment) was a violation of free expression. The amendment narrowed Section 24 to specific harm-causing speech (defamation, incitement to violence) rather than broad 'false information', and tightened arrest procedures to prevent the prior pattern of pre-dawn raids on journalists and bloggers.