The Court held that section 24 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act 2015, which criminalises the sending of messages deemed grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or annoying via a computer network, is vague, arbitrary and incompatible with the right to freedom of expression under Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and Article 19 of the ICCPR, and ordered Nigeria to amend the provision.

First determination by a regional court that a substantive offence in Nigeria's flagship cybercrime statute is incompatible with binding human-rights guarantees, crystallising the tension between cybercrime enforcement and free expression. It establishes that ECOWAS member-state cybercrime statutes are reviewable against the African Charter, and although the 2024 Cybercrime (Amendment) Act retained a narrowed cyberstalking offence, the judgment remains the leading authority constraining prosecutions for 'offensive' online messages across the bloc.