Oyo state Governor Seyi Makinde has appealed to the Federal Government to reverse the suspension of Twitter operations in the country for the greater good of Nigerians. The federal government on Friday announced an indefinite suspension of the operations of Twitter, the microblogging and social networking service, in Nigeria. But defiant Nigerians on Saturday opted […]
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We’re investigating action against us, says company FG orders NBC to license all social media companies Just like Twitter, Facebook pulls down President’s post All the social media platforms operating in Nigeria are now to be licensed by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) following an indefinite suspension slammed on Twitter by the Federal Government on […]
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Does Nigeria have what it takes to enforce Federal Government’s ‘indefinite suspension’ of Twitter? Some Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts believe it does not. A cross section of the experts contacted on Friday said Nigeria lacks a central information dissemination system that is required to make a ban work. President, Association of Telecommunications Companies […]
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Information and Culture minister, Lai Mohammed, says the National Broadcasting Commission, will immediately commence the process of licensing all social media operations in Nigeria. The NBC is the regulator of all radio and television stations in Nigeria. The minister announced this just as he said the Federal Government has also suspended micro-blogging platform, Twitter, which […]
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Nigerians on Twitter are reacting to the indefinite suspension of Twitter operations in the country. Nigeria’s information and culture minister Lai Mohammed announced Twitter’s suspension in a statement by his media aide Segun Adeyemi. The statement announcing Twitter’s ban was was also published on Twitter via Nigeria’s Ministry of Information and Culture’s handle. The Nigerian […]
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The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. This was announced on Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi. However, checks by our correspondent showed that Twitter is still up in Nigeria […]
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By Olusegun Oludire In soccer, half time is not for rest. It is for stock-taking, strategy and restrategising. In governance, middle-of-term period serves the same purpose. The team leader gathers his strikers; together they review the shots fired, goals netted and goals missed. The team that would win comes out of its concave, out of […]
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Citadel Global Community Church Senior Pastor Tunde Bakare, has regretted that corrupt leaders have steered the country to its current state. Bakare, who contested with President Muhammadu Buhari as running mate in the 2011, claimed the President never listened to his ideas on how to move the country forward. The cleric, who spoke with BBC […]
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Partisan politics is out of the plan of the immediate former Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, for now, he has declared. He made this declaration while debunking an alleged move to decamp into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as being circulated by some media platform, describing the development plan as “a piece of […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over the Police Council meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Those in attendance of the meeting include Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; Chairman of the Governors’ Forum Kayode Fayemi and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. Others physically attending the meeting are Chief of Staff to the President, […]
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