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Nigeria finally lifts Twitter ban after 7 months

Twitter has returned to Nigeria. The government has lifted a ban introduced after the company deleted tweets by the country’s president last year.

Twitter is finally back over seven months after it was suspended in Nigeria. | Pulse Nigeria

The Nigerian government has lifted the ban on Twitter, imposed in June last year, saying the micro-blogging platform has agreed to set "a legal entity" in the west African nation during the first quarter of this year.The Nigerian ...

The Nigerian government has listed some of the agreements reached with Twitter before the suspension of its ban. Recall that the government lifted the ban

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) directs me to inform the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12am tonight, 13th January 2022. The approval was given following a memo written to the President by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital […]

Nigeria Wednesday lifted the suspension of the Twitter operation in the country after reaching agreements. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, who headed a Nigeria committee that interfaced with Twitter, said in a statement that Buhari approved the restoration of Twitter in a memo written to communications and digital economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim. Twitter has since been […]

Twitter has expressed delight that its services have been fully restored to Nigeria, affirming that just as in other countries of the world, its presence

The Nigerian government has lifted the ban on Twitter, imposed in June last year, saying the micro-blogging platform has agreed to set a legal entity in the west African nation during the first quarter of this year.

Nigeria said it will now have “direct access” to manage content on Twitter that violates Nigerian laws and Twitter community rules, as parts of the agreements reached between the social media platform and the West African country to lift the ban on Twitter operations. But sources said the “direct channel” does not necessarily mean the […]