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The Nigerian government says it has "indefinitely suspended" Twitter's operations in the country, the Ministry of Information and Culture announced in a statement on Friday.

"The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria," it read.

The statement, which was posted on the ministry's official Twitter handle on Friday evening, accused the American social media company of allowing its platform to be used "for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence."

The suspension comes two days after Twitter deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that was widely perceived as offensive.

In that tweet on Tuesday, the Nigerian leader threatened to deal with people in the country's southeast, who he blames for the recurring attacks on public infrastructure in the region.

"Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand," Buhari wrote in the now-deleted tweet, referring to the brutal two-year Nigeria-Biafra war, which killed an estimated one to three million people, mostly from the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of the country between 1967-1970.

The tweet was deleted Wednesday after many Nigerians flagged it to Twitter.

Information Minister Lai Mohammed criticized Twitter's action and accused the social media giant of "double standards."

Oyinlomobambam:
Ok,we are wanting

But am sure the rest of Nigeria will support the North cos none of them like what's going on in your region.

I believe in peace and dialogue

Oyinlomobambam:
But you can't leave without war...

Are you ready for the war?

BlackFlamefromP:
Don't worry. I myself have gone to the highest realm of spiritual dimension to wage war against the forces that want to disintegrate this nation. I have defeated and neutralized all of them. Nigeria remains intact no matter what.

I know all these things are not ordinary. There are forces working on the mind and emotion of many Nigerians to make them hate their country with passion and want it to collapse. But I have seen that they have already failed.

Do you know that even the so-called 'endSARS' protest that you people have been so emotional about wasn't ordinary? On the surface, 'endSARS' protest appeared to be an innocent and 'peaceful' protest against police brutality and for 'betterment' of Nigeria by the youths, but if you looked deeply you would see that some mischievous anti-Nigeria elements were actually using the so-called peaceful protest by 'armless' youths to speedily bring down the country in a way that even terrorism, guerilla warfare or total war would not have been able to achieve! But God pass them! Nigeria had overcome that ploy of the enemies.

Even if 99.9% of Nigerians have been brainwashed and manipulated to passionately want the country to break, only one Nigerian who still love this country and believe in its potential will generate a force that will completely neutralize and subdue all anti-Nigeria forces. This country will come out of this stronger. All these crises will bring out the best in our millitary and the police. Nigeria will become greater as a result of all these challenges.



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