How Nigeria’s Twitter ban stands to impact people, businesses
Al Jazeera
Twitter suspended in Nigeria after the platform deleted a tweet from President Buhari.
Lagos, Nigeria – Emmanuel Alumona, a Lagos-based front-end developer, realised early on Saturday that he could not access Twitter on his phone. A day earlier, the Nigerian government announced the suspension of Twitter’s operations in the country indefinitely over “the persistent use of the platform for activities that we capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”. The suspension in Africa’s most populous country came two days after the social media giant deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account for violating its rules.
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