The federal government has listed the failure of Twitter to take down offensive tweets of separatists leader Nnamdi Kanu, amongst other “sins”, as the motivation behind shutting down access to the popular microblogging site in Nigeria.

Speaking on state-owned broadcaster, NTA, on Friday, the minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed revealed other transgressions by Twitter against the Nigerian government.

Mr Mohammed alleged that Twitter and its founder Jack Dorsey have made several attempts to destabilise the country.

The minister said that Twitter had become a platform of choice for separatist groups, to carry out their agenda.

Specifically, the minister said the platform was used consistently to promote activities that would lead to the collapse of the country.

He said Mr Kanu, who lives in Europe, had been using Twitter to direct people to attack the symbols of Nigeria’s sovereignty.

Mr Mohammed said Mr Kanu, the leader of outlawed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), used that platform to direct his supporters to attack policemen, military men, barracks and INEC offices among others.

“Before its suspension, we made several pleas to them to remove the tweets where Nigeria is described as a zoo where all of us are described as monkeys.

“We also pleaded to Twitter to delete the tweet where he said that if a Nigerian soldier enters into Biafra, it is death,” he said.

“Twitter, however, said that those tweets did not offend their own rules.

“It gets out of hand when attacks on police and military formations, police and army officers became unabated and we said at this point, we will need to suspend their operations,’’ he said

Mr Mohammed added that the mission of Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey, was suspect as they sponsored the #EndSARS protest which almost destabilised the country and led to the death of many, including destruction of public and private property.

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habsydiamond:
A whole government is fight Nnamdi Kanu... That man must be torn in the flesh of these people...

Simplyleo:

You mean the same lamidi cownu and his ipob pigs that are just like a dot moving in a circle?

Simplyleo:

You mean the same lamidi cownu and his ipob pigs that are just like a dot moving in a circle?

Kings999:
Lets say the truth now....
FG is against Twitter Because it have exposed there evil plans than ever...
Buhari and his Co killed the innocent people in LEKKI tole gate but they denied and Twitter exposed the truth...


They want to ban all the channels and media that always expose there evil act....

Thank you....

Northernblood3:
Are u trying to describe your dad with the dot in-between his legs?

vedaxcool:
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If someone described a tribe as monkeys nairaland will immediately delete such posts despite its well documented poor editorial policies. But Twitter in the other hand literally has an army of moderators looking into tweets that are bad yet the same platform claims using dehumanising rhetorics against an entire group of people doesn't violate its policies, man think! You might worship Jews from where you come from but adding worshiping platforms is just a terrible low.

habsydiamond:
A whole government is fight Nnamdi Kanu... That man must be torn in the flesh of these people...

FoolishBoy419:


Whole governments also fought Shekau and Bin Ladan. So?

habsydiamond:
u have got a point but u forgot that the Bin laden.. Is no more... simply because the government after him are known for taking actions when necessary... But shekau on the other hand is enjoying cos of how the unknown government is handling his case.

Kings999:


Go and sit down...
It's wrong for FG to ban Twitter...
Most GOVERNMENT treat the masses like animals... So we no get right again to say our mind online.... Go and eat shit

FoolishBoy419:


First of all, there isn't even sufficient evidence that USA killed Osama and even if they did, it was only after he had done enough damage and retired from terrorism.

vedaxcool:




Get outta here, see how he legitimising the use of dehumanising words against Nigerians and claim Twitter is right to ignore such, nah combining worship of Jews and Twitter must be eldorado to you folks.