We’re Investigating And Will Provide Update, Says Twitter Soyinka: Finally, The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost• ‘It Will Backfire On Businesses’ Amnesty International Condemns Action, Seeks Reversal Experts Say Process Can Be Circumvented Via VPN • PDP Rejects Suspension We’ll See You In Court,SERAP Fumes. Their Activities Capable Of Undermining Nigeria’s Corporate Existence—Lai Mohammed […]

Sweden has reacted to the Federal Government’s suspension of the operations of the micro blogging and social networking service, Twitter. Information and Culture minister, Lai Mohammed had announced the “indefinite” ban in a statement on Friday by his spokesman, Segun Adeyemi. Sweden’s embassy in Nigeria, in a terse post via its Twitter handle, noted that […]

Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has ordered the immediate prosecution of Nigerians accessing microblogging platform, Twitter, through a virtual private network (VPN). This is a follow-up to the Friday indefinite ban of Twitter operations in Nigeria. The latest development is against the backdrop of reports that Nigerian users of the platform are bypassing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]