Abuja:
Nigeria will quickly lift its ban on Twitter just after resolving some of its variations with the social media platform, Information Minister Lai Mohammed stated on Wednesday.
The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 just after it removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists, and some telecoms organizations had blocked access to customers in Nigeria.
“The ban on Twitter will soon be lifted as we are getting close to reaching full agreement,” Mohammed told reporters just after a cabinet meeting. “We have agreed on some areas. Hopefully in the next few days or weeks we will conclude.”
The ban on Twitter had drawn condemnation from the social media platform itself and also from the U.S. government.
It was imposed just after Twitter removed on June 2 a post by Buhari in which he made reference to the 1967-70 civil war in a way that the enterprise stated violated its “abusive behaviour” policy.
Nigeria’s lawyer basic initially stated these who breached the Twitter ban should really be prosecuted, but that was not enforced.
A West African court ruled on June 22 that the Nigerian authorities could not prosecute persons for applying the service even though it regarded as a suit in search of to overturn the ban.
In practice, several Nigerian customers continued to post on Twitter, but government ministries and other public bodies had stopped applying it.
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