{"id":749779,"date":"2022-01-14T15:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/nigeria-lifts-twitter-ban-says-company-has-agreed-to-governments-demands\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:53:43","slug":"nigeria-lifts-twitter-ban-says-company-has-agreed-to-governments-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/nigeria-lifts-twitter-ban-says-company-has-agreed-to-governments-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria lifts Twitter ban, says company has agreed to governments demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/037c200e-9664-5ec1-ad76-d363bf158e69&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x217&#038;resize=2997x1686.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town \u2013 Nigeria on Friday lifted a ban on social media platform Twitter, saying the latter had agreed to meet all of its demands, broadcaster CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s government suspended Twitter&#8217;s operations in the West African country about six months ago, accusing the United States social media giant of allowing its platform to be used &#8220;for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria&#8217;s corporate existence\u201c according to reports at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The ban which was enforced on June 5 was reversed at midnight on condition that Twitter must:<\/p>\n<p>Register in Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>Appoint a designated country representative<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Comply with tax obligations in Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>Ensure direct communication between government officials and Twitter to manage prohibited content that violates the platform\u2019s community rules<\/p>\n<p>Act with a respectful acknowledgement of Nigerian laws<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Twitter said it was pleased its services had been restored in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission in Nigeria &amp; around the world, is to serve the public conversation,\u201d it tweeted. \u201cWe are deeply committed to Nigeria, where Twitter is used by people for commerce, cultural engagement, and civic participation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark court ruling last June, the Abuja-based ECOWAS court of justice restrained Buhari\u2019s government from prosecuting people for using Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The judgement came after a suit filed against the government by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians who argued that the suspension of Twitter was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-fcff8e1b320a5bad69e524d16e16b658\">African News Agency (ANA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2013 Nigeria on Friday lifted a ban on social media platform Twitter, saying the latter had agreed to meet all of its demands, broadcaster CNN reported. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s government suspended Twitter&#8217;s operations in the West African country about six months ago, accusing the United States social media giant of allowing its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}