Twitter is back on stream in Nigeria hours after the federal government announced the lifting of the suspension earlier placed on the social media platform 215 days ago.
As at the hour of this report, the restoration has been partial as clients of network service operators other than MTN Airtel actually couldn’t gain admittance to the stage.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on Friday, June 4 2021, set a ban on Twitter activities in Nigeria north of a few claims which remembered powering of uncertainty for the country.
The president’s decision was welcomed with disgust from the inside and outside the shores as a few inflexible residents set out to utilizing Virtual Private Network (VPN) to bypass the ban.
This was disclosed in a press statement on Wednesday signed by the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement, Kashifu Abdullahi.
The statement read in part, “The Federal Government of Nigeria directs me to inform the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12 am tonight, January 13, 2022.
“The approval was given following a memo written to the President by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami.”
After a few prodding and unlimited reports on Twitter’s compliance, the Federal government on Wednesday, January 12, at long last relinquished the ban.
Reporting the choice, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency who additionally serves as the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement, Kashifu Abdullahi said “The Federal Government of Nigeria guides me to illuminate the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, has endorsed the lifting of the suspension of Twitter activity in Nigeria successful from 12 am tonight, January 13, 2022.”
In the mean time, the suspension of the restriction has evoked various responses from Nigerians. Certain individuals have ascribed the choice to the fast-approaching 2023 general elections while others were simply satisfied to turn off their VPN applications.
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