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TRENDING NOW! Foreign News Site Sparks Controversy With Report That Blamed Nnamdi Kanu For Buhari's Twitter Ban


Following their newest publication reacting to the Twitter ban in Nigeria, The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, has prompted netizens to react.

Telegraph Media Group publishes the national British daily broadsheet newspaper The Telegraph, which is delivered throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

In their latest piece titled " How A Man From Peckham Caused Nigeria To Shut Down Twitter, " the writer went into great detail on how Nnamdi Kanu forced the Nigerian government to suspend Twitter operations in the country.

According to the BBC, the former London resident was the " catalyst" for Facebook' s extraordinary decision to exclude Nigerians from accessing the network.

" The 52- year- old (Nnamdi Kanu), who leads the effort to resurrect the former breakaway state of Biafra, was the spark for President Muhammadu Buhari' s unusual decision two weeks ago to ban Nigeria' s 200 million people from using Twitter, " according to the story.

The report also went into great depth about President Buhari' s message being deleted by Twitter on June 2nd for breaking the platform' s policies.

" Twitter subsequently took down his tweet, citing a " abusive behavior" policy as the reason. The president then banned Twitter in Nigeria two days later. "

" Defending the decision, Mr Buhari argued that Mr Kanu had used his own Twitter account, which has 300, 000 followers, " to direct his loyalists to kill Nigerian soldiers and policemen, " according to the statement.

" The government accuses IPOB' s armed branch of escalating lawlessness in the erstwhile Biafra area of south- east Nigeria in recent months. " As written in the article, I' ve quoted it.

Making Kanu more popular than ever. The most painful part to Buhari is the sit- at- home order for BiafraDay Celebration.

However, the report elicited a variety of responses from online users. Here are a few reactions below;

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It's the business of those who want to separate because of crude oil and those who want Nigeria to remain one because of crude oil...not my business...

It's good they said it as it is...that Fulani govt banned twitter because of MNK nd not because the vegetable's genocidal tweet was deleted.

Lamidi Cownu is dia formenting trouble from obodo oyibo. Gullible ones are following him life flies to dead body

blackpanda:
Lamidi Cownu is dia formenting trouble from obodo oyibo. Gullible ones are following him life flies to dead body

When will you talk extensively about those formenting the real trouble Preventing people from going to their farms

I wonder what Nigeria would have been like right now if people like Nnamdi Kanu was not brave enough

The person sitting on your brain have done you real somchin