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."

zeuss:
Is Nigeria a dictatorship? The president cannot make laws the legislative does this...we r getting it all wrong here.

umunaija:
Buhari keep shooting himself in the foot. Is better to ignore somethings but always proving stubborn will only hurt you. Now the world will hear about ipob, like CNN said, 1 - 3 million Igbos were killed. Many people that don't know about it before will know it now. Many people will be sympathetic to Ipob because of this. One funny thing about life is that when you think you are doing people, you are actually doing yourself. Buhari is always promoting nnamdi kanu and Biafra. What an irony.

Rissamenti:


Being a democracy does not make us a mumu country that Twitter can insult anyhow, sorry.

Officialgarri:
All those people that abandoned Nairaland and fled to twitter will come back and meet us here.

Anything that will bring sanity to this country is welcome.

umunaija:
Buhari keep shooting himself in the foot. Is better to ignore somethings but always proving stubborn will only hurt you. Now the world will hear about ipob, like CNN said, 1 - 3 million Igbos were killed. Many people that don't know about it before will know it now. Many people will be sympathetic to Ipob because of this. One funny thing about life is that when you think you are doing people, you are actually doing yourself. Buhari is always promoting nnamdi kanu and Biafra. What an irony.

Rissamenti:
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.LESSON FOR TWITTER: DO NOT MESS WITH THE GIANT OF AFRICA


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Built2last:
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."


https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/04/africa/nigeria-suspends-twitter-operations-intl/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

Rissamenti:
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.LESSON FOR TWITTER: DO NOT MESS WITH THE GIANT OF AFRICA


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Officialgarri:
All those people that abandoned Nairaland and fled to twitter will come back and meet us here.

Anything that will bring sanity to this country is welcome .

BigYash:
Is twitter your problem in the country? Twitter leaving Nigeria, how will that stop kidnapping, the division among the various regions in the country,herdsmen attacking farmers,poor management of the country's economy and resources, unemployment and many other issues drawnin the nation currently.Those days in sportbet thread,I thought you were wise sombori o. I'm surprised to see you supporting the evil called buhari government. Although I m sure its not buhari,its actually the cabals using the likes of Lai,Garba,Adesina to give out orders. Since when bubu no dey his wife book lunch, na em I blive one minute silence wen ECOWAS do for one dead president, sometime ago..

plaindealer:



When Igbos list all the bogus problems that Nigeria is facing, they always leave out ipob terrorists, terrorists gunmen, killers and murderers killing innocent people and burning down houses and businesses and onion thieves in the SE.


God Bless Nigeria.

luvmijeje:
Ha! On top wetin? E don red. Are there still any sane Yoruba supporting this government? Are there still any sane Yoruba giving legitimacy to the incompetency of this government?

Why do I feel like something sinister is about to take place. News that they don't want it to get out of this country?

If they can do it in the East, they will do to us in the West.

BigYash:
I love what those ESN are doing.

plaindealer:






Why are you Igbos always acting like cowards? Why is it always so hard for you to be proud of who you are and your ipobian identity? Are you so ashamed of Igbos that you are so desperate not to call yourself ipob even though you are and you love everything they stand for?

How do you even love terrorists, killers, murderers arsonists and evil elements?

You Igbos are a different and weird breed..