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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Presidency yesterday said the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria was

  Samuel Ortom, the Governor of Benue has described the ban on Twitter Operations in Nigeria by the Federal Government an ill-advised diversion from the core issues of insecurity and injustice plaguing the nation. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, said the Twitter ban offers no solution to any of the myriad of problems facing the country and stresses that the move is only capable of heightening tensions and fueling suspicions among Nigerians over the real motives of the Federal Government. He noted that the act of suspending Twitter amounts to suppressin...

When asked about the details of the suspension, a ministerial aide told Reuters: "Wait and see how things will turn out." As of the early hours of Saturday, Twitter`s website was inaccessible in Nigeria on some mobile carriers, while its app and website worked on others, according to Reuters tests in Lagos and Abuja. Twitter is investigating its "deeply concerning" suspension of operations by the Nigerian government, and "will provide updates when we know more," the company said in a statement. On Wednesday, the U.S. tech firm said Buhari`s post threatening to punish groups blamed for attacks...

Nigeria indefinitely suspended Twitter two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Twitter said the decision to suspend operations in Africa’s most populous nation was ‘deeply concerning’.