Twitter Ban

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, October 1, declared that he had directed a conditional lifting of the ban placed on the operations of Twitter in Nigeria.

Chiedozie Igweonu, a leading IT expert, has stated emphatically that the Twitterban has affected businesses that relied on the tech giant for their operation.

Again, the federal government has revealed that the issue it had with microblogging site, twitter would soon be resolved and operations would begin in soon.

Nigerian government on Saturday, June 5, officially banned Twitter from operating in Nigeria after deleting President Muhammadu Buhari's controversial tweet.

Economic experts say the already stretched Nigerian economy and the country's citizens are suffering the effects of the Twitter ban by the federal government.

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of information, has said that the federal government has made some progress in its discussions with the social media giant.