I. JUDGMENT: 1. This is the judgment of the Court read virtually in open court pursuant to Article 8(1) of the Practice Directions on Electronic Case Management and Virtual Court Sessions, 2020. II. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTIES: 2. The Applicants are citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the 1st Applicant constitutes the Chairman, Board of Trustees of Indigenes Equity Forum with office located at Winner Plaza Suite 22, No. 31 Okemesi Crescent Garki 2, Abuja. They are engaged in public advocacy and activism for the entrenchment of the right and proper democratic values in the country. 3. The 1st Respondent is the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria constituted as the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 4. The 2nd and 3rd Respondents are the elected leaders of the National Assembly of the 1st Respondent. 5. The Applicants state that the 2nd and 3rd Respondents are not necessarily proper parties before this Honorable Court, but being therefore nominal parties, they are herein joined as being the authority engaged in the business of bringing the Hate Speech Bill into law, and are currently in the course and business of doing so, the said bill having passed the second reading in the parliamentary procedure. III. INTRODUCTION Subject matter of proceedings 6. The Applicants’ case is that, pending before the National Assembly of the 1st Respondent comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, is a Bill 3