The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, headed by Lai Mohammed have announced the ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria, using the same Twitter platform.
The announcement was declared in a statement today in Abuja as stated below;
“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.
The Minister said the Federal Government has also directed the National Broadcasting l Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria”.
The ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria is coming after Twitter took down Buhari’s tweet which suggested violence and threat of a second civil war.