The government of Niga © ria announced last night (12) the lifting of the seven-month suspension of the Twitter, where more than 200 million people were excluded from this social network.
"O President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria effective at midnight today.“, said the director of the National Agency for the Development of Information Technology, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, in an official statement.
According to the press release, revealed by AFP, this lifting of the suspension is the result of several months of negotiations between the Nigerian authorities and the social network, and where, at that moment, Twitter adhered to “all the conditions established by the federal government”, mainly regarding the taxation and management of content that does not respect the laws of Nigeria.
to inform that the Twitter was suspended in Nigeria on June 04, 2021, which was two days after the social network suppressed a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari.
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The statement, which was posted on the official Twitter of that country's Ministry of Information, accused the American social media company of allowing the platform to be used "for activities capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence".
President Buhari's comment referred to supporters of Biafran's independence, whom he said that the Government "would address them in the language they understand🇧🇷 The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, justified the decision with the fact that, according to him, the platform was being used "for activities that may undermine the entire existence of Nigeria".
Also inform that four months after this suspension, the Nigerian President had ordered the lifting of the ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria, but only if certain conditions are met, including use and registration "positives” from the social network in Nigeria.
Twitter's suspension has sparked deep consternation in Nigeria, a young, highly connected country where the social network is an important tool of social protest.
