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Vanguard News With Twitter, indignation most uncalled for On Kindly Share This Story: Life in Nigeria would have continued its new normal last week, not the new normal imposed by COVID-19, but the bizarre reality of waking up to stories of deaths and attacks and threats of war – yes – that is the new normal, only if Twitter did not decide, in a flash of corporate affront and effrontery to Nigeria, to take its African headquarters to Ghana. What a cheek! Nigeria is the giant of Africa with ...

Vanguard News With Twitter, an indignation most uncalled for On By Okoh Aihe LIFE in Nigeria would have continued its new normal last week, not the new normal imposed by COVID-19, but the bizarre reality of waking up to stories of deaths and attacks and threats of war – yes – that is the new normal, only if Twitter did not decide, in a flash of corporate affront and effrontery to Nigeria, to take its African headquarters to Ghana. What a cheek! Nigeria is the giant of Africa with the large...

Minister of Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo and Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey By Sun Apr 18 2021 The recent decision of social media giant, Twitter, to set up its Africa office in Accra, Ghana, has reopened talks on how Nigeria increasingly lose similar opportunity even as more companies relocate to the Ghanian capital. Daily Trust on Sunday reports on the trend and how it can be reversed.     Ghana, and not Nigeria, has become the preferred destination for international firms hoping ...

Twitter’s founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey It is no more news that US-based social media company Twitter Inc has concluded plans to establish a presence on the African continent in line with its growth strategy. Recall, that Twitter’s founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, visited Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, and South Africa in 2019 in anticipation of this major expansion and growth strategy. Sadly, to Nigeria and Nigerians, Ghana was announced to host Twitter’s first Africa office. This was communica...

Emmanuel Egobiambu   Updated April 16, 2021 Germany’s move comes less than one week after Twitter said it will locate its African base in Ghana.   The German Government has said it will back the establishment of a German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention in Ghana. “Excellent news: Germany Flag of Germany will support the launch of a new “German-West African Center for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention,” the German ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff...

Jack-in-Ghana By Thu Apr 15 2021 So Jack Dorsey, CEO  of Twitter, months after his tweet that  was heard around the continent, carried his business to Ghana and the Giant of Africa is raking because how dare he leave Nigeria with all its resources; human and otherwise to go and land in Ghana where their jollof is rubbish? Maybe him posting a photo of Ghana jollof while on his visit in 2019 was the hint no one took. Thing is though, that no matter how many more Twitter users Naija has than Gha...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cited the ruling APC governance style as the reason for the location of Twitter’s African Headquarterters in Ghana despite Nigerians high patronage. Twitter’s announcement on Monday to set up its first Africa base in Ghana did not go well with many Nigerian users who trended the development on the platform. The Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, in a statement announcing the decision, described Ghana “as a champion for democracy, a supporter of free speech, ...

Twitter Opens its First African Office in Ghana

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705 Nigerias biggest opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the decision of Twitter to set up its African Headquarters in Ghana instead of Nigeria on what it described as the "unabating misrule" of the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said Twitters preference for Ghana over Nigeria was occasioned by inconsistent economic policies, obnoxious suppression of free speech, stifling of online ...