{"id":915760,"date":"2022-01-12T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/breaking-nigeria-lifts-twitter-suspension-after-seven-months\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:23:08","slug":"breaking-nigeria-lifts-twitter-suspension-after-seven-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/breaking-nigeria-lifts-twitter-suspension-after-seven-months\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Nigeria Lifts Twitter Suspension After Seven Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-819896 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian government has lifted the suspension of Twitter\u2019s operations in the country, an official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The government announced the suspension of the social media platform in June, 2021, after it deleted a controversial tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. The government also accused\u00a0Twitter\u00a0of working against Nigeria\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Abdullahi, announced the lifting of the suspension in a statement, The Nation newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abdullahi was also involved in the Nigerian government\u2019s negotiation with Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) directs me to inform the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12am tonight, 13th January 2022,\u201d The Nation newspaper quoted the official as saying in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe approval was given following a memo written to the President by the\u00a0<strong>Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Memo, the Minister updated and requested the President\u2019s approval for the lifting based on the Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement\u2019s recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the suspension, millions of Twitter users have been unable to use the social media platform in Nigeria unless they use a Virtual Private Network.<\/p>\n<p>More details later\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government has lifted the suspension of Twitter\u2019s operations in the country, an official has said. The government announced the suspension of the social media platform in June, 2021, after it deleted a controversial tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. The government also accused\u00a0Twitter\u00a0of working against Nigeria\u2019s interest. The Director-General of the National Information Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915760","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=915760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}