AN American microblogging and social networking service, Twitter has suspended the account of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

The ICIR contacted the NCC, for comment on the account suspension.

An NCC staff who is not authorised to speak on behalf of the commission said, the commission is aware of the suspension and that the account was suspended due to offshoot of the global issue currently with Twitter.

“It’s an offshoot of the global issue currently with Twitter and we are currently on it to get the account back.

“What we are experiencing right now is the issue with Twitter where people can’t login for a while,” she said.

The ICIR was unable to get any response from Twitter to know the reason why the account was suspended.

All efforts to reach Twitter was unsuccessful because the mail sent was not responded to as at the time of filling this report.

Meanwhile, common reasons why Twitter may suspend account for violating rules includes: https://www.icirnigeria.org/ncc-unaware-as-twitter-suspends-account/