Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has again explained why Twitter operations was suspended in the country. Receiving the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Akunna Cook in his office in Abuja on Thursday February
A Twitter user has shared the story of a friend who abandoned his N350, 000 a month job in Nigeria and relocated to Canada in search for greener pastures. According to @Tweetoracle, two years after the said friend relocated, things
The federal government has listed the agreement reached with Twitter before suspending the ban on the social media giant’s operation in the country. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) had announced that lifting of
The ban on Twitter operation in the country may soon be lifted as the social media giant has reportedly met six conditions imposed on it by the Nigerian government. The Nation reported that the Technical Committee raised by the government
Parag Agrawal, the new Twitter CEO, has been hit with racism claims after a 2010 tweet resurfaced in which he appears to call all white people racist. In the tweet shared on October 26, 2010, Parag Agrawal, an Indian-American, wrote:
The federal government has said that the ban on operations of social media giant, Twitter, in the country will be lifted soon. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed gave the update while responding to a question by state house correspondents on
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal government will not rest until social media platforms are regulated. The minister said this in an interview with NAN in Washington while reacting to media reports that claimed
The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC has said that they closely monitoring certain repressive developments in Nigeria. This came after an urgent appeal by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over Twitter ban in the country.
The Federal Government has denied claims that it has stopped Nigerians from using the microblogging site, Twitter. Punch reports that the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and the Federal Government made the denial in a counter-affidavit they deposed to
Billionaire Businessman and husband of actress Regina Daniels, Ned Nwoko has disclosed that he is in support of the Twitter ban in the country. Speaking at a June 12 lecture organised by the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of