Just In : FG to lift Twitter suspension

The federal government of Nigeria has disclosed that it will lift its ban on Twitter, in a matter of days.

Lai Mohammed, the Minister for Information made the disclosure on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

The minister informed that the status of the conversation with the microblogging site has reached an amicable stage, with agreements reached in all areas except three.

The remaining three unresolved areas, according to him, are simply a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ there would be an implementation of conditions discussed.

He revealed that oof the pending issues is in relation to the condition that Twitter establishes a legal presence in Nigeria, registered as a Nigerian company with an office address and an employee to serve as a country representative in the country.

While not turning down the proposition in totality, the micro-blogging site has maintained that the earliest it can establish a company is in 2022.

The Federal Government suspended Twitter’s operations in June after the social media platform deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for breaching the site’s rules.

But, the government explained at the time that the suspension had no correlation with the deletion of the President’s tweets.