The Federal government has announced the suspension of Twitter’s operations in Nigeria.
The suspension is coming days after the platform deleted genocidal tweets from the Nigerian President Buhari’s handle.
Read statement released from the office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announcing the suspension;
The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.