The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria has asked its area councils, branches, and professional fora in local governments, schools, and higher institutions across Lagos State to suspend the use of Twitter for publicity and other operations.

The society’s president in Lagos, Miftahudeen Thanni, made this known in a press statement on Tuesday.

The organisation’s directive comes after the Federal Government of Nigeria suspended the operations of Twitter in the country on June 4 and a subsequent directive by the National Broadcasting Commission to television and radio stations.

In a notice to its organs, the MSSNLagos said, “Kindly suspend the addition of Twitter handles/addresses and icon(s) on MSSNLagos publicity materials (texts, electronic or printed).

“This notice is hereby directed to the leadership of all organs and hierarchies in the Area Unit. This takes immediate effect.”

Mr Thanni explained that while the Federal Government may not be doing enough in other areas, such as security, the MSSNLagos is convinced that defying the government’s directive suspending Twitter is unnecessary.

He explained that though Muslim students have been victims of human rights violations and harassment through the denial of their rights to wear hijab, the recent moves by the Federal Government are needed.

“No sane organisation would support actions against freedom of expression and association and the Federal Government must avoid policies and actions against press freedom. This is despite that the unity of Nigeria is paramount and must be defended.

“While we believe that social media, including Twitter, can be better regulated beyond suspension, we will defend the sovereignty of Nigeria which should not be toyed with. The double standards employed by Twitter on sensitive happenings of #EndSARS and destruction by IPOB members cannot be ignored.

“As much as we hope that the president acts swiftly on issues of insecurity and shows leadership, Twitter must ensure that its platform is not used to escalate crisis and mobilise attackers of the nation’s infrastructure. We appeal to the Federal Government and Twitter to find a common ground. Until this is done, we will obey the suspension order.

“The Federal Government has to look into restoring orderliness beyond suspension and address other sundry issues affecting Nigeria.

“Like many Nigerians, we are unhappy with happenings in the country. For some time, security challenges have risen at an alarming rate. The country’s education and judicial sectors have been consistently hit by strikes. There are other issues that the FG should consider paying greater attention to.”
Mr Thanni, who reiterated that MSSNLagos is against calls for secession, condemned the killings of people in Igangan area of Oyo State and abduction of students in different parts of the country.

“We are for one Nigeria,” he said.

“The call for secession will further compound the problems of Nigeria and it is not in any way the solution to the challenges facing the country. We are against the removal of any leader through undemocratic means.

“It is high time we all helped the government to tackle some of the challenges it is facing. Things have gone beyond being partisan or excessively regional or religious.

“The killings of people in Igangan is not only senseless but wicked. Rather than join the blame game, we will continue to pray to God to heal our nation and expose those behind the evil deeds. We pray to Him to give us leaders that have the love of the people.”


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There problem....

if them like make dem tell people of there faith to stop breathing Oxygen sef...

na wen u guys go bring that Topic..

Rulling on using Twitter....


They Ban Protest

They Ban Cryypto

They Ban Twitter

you guys should keep Supporting Government of the BANdit....

Watch as the students will defy this directive and it might bring division among the students (the intelligent one among them)

It's really pathetic FG has to go this route threatening compliance and paying others to comply

Twitter only made one reaction yet the ones who brought ban have turned chemical reaction reacting per second

On the other thread APC has come out to "advise" Nigerians on the "dangers" of VPN, since the zombies they paid here couldn't convince us

Dem go ban bbc hausa too.

What is the usefulness on twitter?

I knew it must be a Yoruba Muslim even before opening the thread,those ones can sell their mama to impress their fulani overlords and be seen as Muslims and the obete even wrote about IPOB up there
Have you Noticed that the problem of an average Muslim is IPOB never boko haram or herdsmen?

agadez007:
I knew it must be a Yoruba Muslim even before opening the thread,those ones can sell their mama to impress their fulani overlords and be seen as Muslims and the obete even wrote about IPOB up there
Have you Noticed that the problem of an average Muslim is IPOB never boko haram or herdsmen?

Yoruba don't answer that kind of name. And trust me, there won't be compliance. We are not soulless like th aboki upnorth

Another terrorist group in embryo!

Nukilia:
Another terrorist group in embryo!

True

This is a body only good for issuing fatwa on campuses just like how pantami used them to kill the student Christian in bauchi

The blood thirsty organization did the task and went to bed without twitching

Mikecold:
True

This is a body only good for issuing fatwa on campuses just like how pantami used them to kill the student Christian in bauchi

The blood thirsty organization did the task and went to bed without twitching

When Jewish religion grows in Nigeria, all these terror organizations will shrink to death!

Wetin worries slavery of allah with TwitterSlaves should be busy scrubbing the ceiling of allah

Islam is disgusting in this part of the world

Muslim students society of NIGERIA

...Na there my talk end

These actions would only make Buhari look more stupid when he reverses this Twitter action, because he would eventually.

This action leaves APC open to opposition campaigns and calls to gatherings against it without dissenting voices...

Buhari lacks emotional strategy to win the human mind.. if he had complained and banned the twitter action for 48hrs, his voice would have been heard and people including Twitter would stand with him against IPOB using that medium while he has the upper hand... but he has elongated it beyond and lost the advantage, if he reverses it now, his wife and Malami would look ultra stupid.

Hh

Even the so called educated ones..... SMH