The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has slammed the federal government for suspending the operation of Twitter in Nigeria.

The legal body also threatened to challenge the decision in court.

In a series of tweet on Friday, the President of NBA, Olumide Akpata, noted that Nigeria is operating a democracy, which stipulates that every action of the government must be backed by the law.

Akpata said the directive to the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to begin the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria, “is another disguised attempt to regulate social media, restrict freedom of speech and shrink civic space.”

He added that the NBA “finds no constitutional or legal authority to support the peremptory action of the Federal Government to suspend the operations of Twitter in Nigeria.”

Akpata called on the government to immediately reverse the decision, or the NBA will “have no choice but to challenge same in the interest of the public and for the sake of our democracy.”

source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/04/a-disguised-attempt-to-regulate-social-media-nba-threatens-action-over-twitter-ban/

Oluwa; which kinda lawless Zooyard be this sef

Ok

Good to see some people are helping to fight for our democratic right to freely express ourselves!

And no, the irony of twitter silencing buharis right to freely express himself is not exactly lost on me though I think buhari's tweet was very ill advised, and is the sort of thing he should have said to bokoharam.

valentineuwakwe:
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has slammed the federal government for suspending the operation of Twitter in Nigeria.

The legal body also threatened to challenge the decision in court.

In a series of tweet on Friday, the President of NBA, Olumide Akpata, noted that Nigeria is operating a democracy, which stipulates that every action of the government must be backed by the law.

Akpata said the directive to the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to begin the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria, “is another disguised attempt to regulate social media, restrict freedom of speech and shrink civic space.”

He added that the NBA “finds no constitutional or legal authority to support the peremptory action of the Federal Government to suspend the operations of Twitter in Nigeria.”

Akpata called on the government to immediately reverse the decision, or the NBA will “have no choice but to challenge same in the interest of the public and for the sake of our democracy.”

source:https://dailypost.ng/2021/06/04/a-disguised-attempt-to-regulate-social-media-nba-threatens-action-over-twitter-ban/

these guys are not doing enough , buhari no longer hides his disgust for Nigerian masses , let's shut down this country and dare those few fools who thing Nigeria is their fathers property

The is the dumbest thing I have ever read from a northerner. Imagine calling 'Twitter an IPOB machine'.

Absolutely.


Anarchy loom!


We warned Nigerians against the terrorist organization called APC and their flag bearer, the coup plotter cum jihadist.

Hopefully they will take action and not just rant.

This is the challenge when we made an incompetent person our president.

I just book this space.
I no know wetin to comment again

Since way u dy comment wetin done happen?
Abi na comment we go chop?

Nonsense

The same Twitter you have been using for years has suddenly turned into an enemy of the Nigerian cyber space simply because a docile, stupid and useless president waz sanctioned for violating it rules..

Instead learning from the activities of Twitter and repositioning this useless system that has failed in addressing the numerous challenges of corruption in governance, the efulefus are busy fighting Twitter. May be the fools thinks since anything goes in Nigeria, same may applies to other communities .

We have on several occasions warned this administration of it flagrant disobedience and violations of the rights of the citizenry, but been the autocratic leader Buhari is, he cares less.

The story of Twitter sanctioning Buhari has once again vindicated us and with this, the whole world shoul beam their searchlight on Nigeria and thoroughly investigate, evaluate, and sanction this useless regime of crassness.

Buhari is a twit...

Buhari is too primitive in thinking

Don't worry Northern chapter will soon refute you guys. Meanwhile, You can only deceive people that you're very good in swimming when not in the water. Their lies have long expired & they have totally run-out hence the need to block every means of communication.

Who are this one?

Everything is for a reason!
Remember that 'he who the gods want dead, first make mad'
Yes, this the evolving madness in the scheme of things for, the rulers of the failed/expired and extinguishing, contraption!!!

Don't threaten to act, just act please

Empty threats everywhere is all I see, Buhari was once a failure and presently he's still a failure.

They can ban Twitter in the core arewa since they already lost touch with reality. The north is the major problem this country has. Very dirty, stupid, backward and useless people

take action nor deh threaten action, if they do this unchallenged then suspending the constitution has begun

It seems NBA is one of the problems of Nigeria. Democracy in general is alien to Nigerian why of doing things. It works best for the western world. I believe it is what will destroy Nigeria eventually. Nigerians are mostly criminals best handled by an iron fist instead of being tied down by democratic bottlenecks. You may be shocked but eventually you might find out the truth.

FYI: for those who don’t wanna go through the stress of VPN just download Chrome and go to Incognito, then browse Twitter from there freely thanks
We will always be 100 steps ahead of them, thier papa left yansh

zeyt:
It seems NBA is one of the problems of Nigeria. Democracy in general is alien to Nigerian why of doing things. It works best for the western world. I believe it is what will destroy Nigeria eventually. Nigerians are mostly criminals best handled by an iron fist instead of being tied down by democratic bottlenecks. You may be shocked but eventually you might find out the truth.

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Fellows like you are the major problems ..!!!! utterly senile and deranged

Lie Muhammad right now... He is at 80% stage of regulating social media in Nigeria... That’s a dream come true for him


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Buhari was threatening igbo with genocide on Twitter and it violate Twitter law American president was suspended for similar tweet Nigeria leader are lawless and stupid they think they are god

NBA has been very docile

InaNla:
Absolutely.


Anarchy loom!


We warned Nigerians against the terrorist organization called APC and their flag bearer, the coup plotter cum jihadist.

Anarchy emenated since #endsars

You taking it to court?? Bihari will laugh at you if he heard you said this, he owns the court and law is in his hand, what he like he does...you can't do shit...Bihari na dumb ass

Good. The only problem is the courts are on strike.

RIP Nigeria. This is what our FG can fight against(tweeter) instead insecurity. Buhari is a DEMON