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Twitter Ban: Twitter Reacts One Week After Nigerian Govt Slams Suspension
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Social media giant, Twitter, has reached out to the Nigerian government, informing them of their willingness to meet over the suspension placed on its platform in the country. The Federal Government suspended Twitter’s operation in Nigeria last Friday, on claiming the platform is being used to threaten the country’s corporate existence. On Wednesday, the Minister Read More
Nigerians Need Twitter – Senate President, Ahmed Lawan Tells FG
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Senate president of the 9th Assembly, Ahmad Lawan has charged the federal government to lift the ban of suspension on Twitter, saying that Nigerians need the microblogging site. Lawan said this on Friday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen on the occasion of the second anniversary of the ninth Senate. The face-off between the federal Read More
Twitter Ban: Five Governors Remain Active, Tweet
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Some prominent Nigerians have continued to defy the ban on micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, by President Buhari-led administration despite the threat by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami to prosecute Nigerians still posting or using the microblogging site. Last Friday, the federal government spokesman, Lai Muhammed announced the indefinite suspension Read More
Twitter Ban: Again, US Govt Blasts Buhari, FG
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The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has lambasted the Federal Government and President Muhammadu Buhari over the suspension of twitter operations in Nigeria. Blinken said restriction of social media use has no place in a democracy. In a statement made available on Thursday and signed by Blinken’s spokesman, Ned Price, ‘Nigeria’s Twitter Suspension’, Read More
[PHOTOSTORY]Twitter Ban: FG Opens Koo App Account
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The federal government of Nigeria has opened Koo App account days after suspending the micro blogging platform twitter. The federal government through the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, last week announced the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. Twitter had earlier deleted president Muhammadu Buhari tweet where he make a genocide comment about the Read More
Twitter Ban: I’m Not Happy That I Can’t Tweet – Buhari’s Aide, Ahmed Ismaeel
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The Senior Special Assistant on National Social Investment Program to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ismaeel Ahmed, has expressed dismay over his inability to use Twitter, following the ban of the platform. Ahmed said he’s not happy that he cannot tweet. He disclosed this to journalists at the national Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Read More
Twitter Ban: Impose Visa Ban On Buhari, Malami, Lai Mohammed – PDP Asks US, UK, Canada, Others
5 days ago Dammylink 0
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday asked the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and other members of the International Communities to impose a visa ban on President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his cabinet. The opposition party said this should be done immediately, describing suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria as ‘stifling Read More
Twitter was Suspended Because Boko Haram Was Allowed To Be ‘Tweeting’ – APC Reps Member
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A member of the Federal house of Representatives, Hon. Yunusa Ahmad Abubakar has alleged that one of the reasons why Twitter’s operations were suspended in Nigeria by President Buhari-led administration was because of terror sect, Boko Haram. Ahmad, who is also a member of the house committee on loans, aids and debts management disclosed this Read More