Tag: twitter

The United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has slammed the Buhari-led government's decision to indefinitely suspend Twitter operations in Nigeria.  In a statement released recently by his media aide, Ned ...

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has directed every social media platform and online broadcasting service provider operating in Nigeria to apply for broadcast license.  The Director-General of NBC, Armstrong Idachaba, ...

Famous Comedian and anchor of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah has slammed  President Muhammadu Buhari for banning Twitter.  According to Trevor Noah, the meaning of the ban is that when the ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that Nigerians should not access their Twitter accounts with the Virtual Private Network.   This warning was issued by Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning ...

Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has made it known that the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has the right and the prerogative to prosecute ...

In a bid to calm the outrage that emanated from the ban on Twitter, the Nigerian Government has given conditions required before the ban can be lifted. This was revealed ...

The Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has dared the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, by tweeting in spite of the existing order ...

Barely a day after Twitter deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial post, Facebook, another social media platform, has also removed the statement from its platform. Buhari had in the statement threatened ...

Twitter just did Nigerians a huge favor by deleting President Buhari’s threats against fellow Nigerians and suspended his account at least for 12 hours. In doing this, Twitter has exposed ...

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, made the announcement ...