The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) directs me to inform the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12am tonight, 13th January 2022. The approval was given following a memo written to the President by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the ban on Twitter be lifted after about 222 days. Mr Buhari had ordered the ban June last year days after his tweet deemed genocidal against the people of the South-East geo-political zone was deleted. Mr Buhari gave the order after reviewing a memo to that effect from the […]
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Twitter users may soon have access to the social media platform which has met the six conditions imposed on it by the Federal Government. The Technical Committee raised by the government to resolve the impasse between the two parties is fine-tuning the offers by the micro blogger before making a final recommendation to President Muhammadu […]
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On June 4, the Federal Government announced the suspension of Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Telecommunication companies had on June 5 blocked access to Twitter after receiving a directive from the Nigerian Communications Commission to that effect. According to the NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown […]
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The Federal Government has developed a code of conduct for all social media platforms in the country, Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment has disclosed. Speaking on Channels Television programme ‘Sunday Politics’ monitored by DAILY INDEPENDENT, Keyamo who is a member of a committee set up by the federal government to meet […]
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Tolu Ogunlesi, a new media aide to PresidentMuhammadu Buhari, tried unsuccessfully to defend the regime’s illegal and indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. Mr Ogunlesi appeared on a CNN segment with Larry Madowo on Wednesday, where he was asked whether he was in support of the ban or not. “Ahm well, so I, I, I, […]
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The statement follows President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement that the Twitter ban will be lifted, but only after certain conditions are met. The social media platform, Twitter, which is currently banned in Nigeria, says it looks forward to having its operations reinstated in the most populous African country following “productive” discussions with its government. According to […]
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The federal government says the ban on microblogging giant Twitter will soon be lifted in “a few more days.” The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the disclosure on Wednesday while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja. According to him, a lot of progress has been made in the ongoing dialogue […]
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Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed is on his way back to Nigeria after embarking on a futile trip to the US. Mohammed had travelled to meet with top executives of popular microblogging site, Twitter following the suspension of the app in Nigeria by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in June. However, a […]
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THE Federal Government on Wednesday said that the Twitter ban in Nigeria will be lifted soon. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the First Lady’s Conference […]
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