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Nigeria lifts Twitter ban from midnight, government official says

Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements, with Nigerian authorities, a senior government official said on Wednesday. In a statement issued by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Read More…

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Lai Mohammed talks of lifting the Twitter ban by end of the year

Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed has told the international news agency, REUTERS, that Nigeria may lift its ban on Twitter before the end of the year, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday, that the government was awaiting a response on three final requests made of the social media platform. Mohammed told the news agency Read More…