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frowland:
Actually UK have no written constitution but I get your point.

UK has a constitution even if it's not a written and to cure ur ignorance a written constitution is one u can find in a single document like ours d 1999 constitution... British constitution is unwritten cos it's not in one single document...

OGHENAOGIE:
see how foolish u sound... Did Scotland voted for seccesion out of UK... Is referendum in ur constitution?? Why are u guys violent on those who choose not to align with idiotic Ipob fools like u guys...

Don't mind those retarde.d idiots, always violent at anybody that doesn't agree with their stupid ideology.

No wonder the only word in their vocabulary for a country is ZOO...they are worse than animals.

Sanchez01:
Jonathan was removed through the help of America, specifically Obama. The APC and Buhari won on the back of social media because the relic was presented as a refurbished democrat.

Social media platforms are not strong or powerful as people assume. Crowwe is a social media platform, isn't it? How powerful is it? Why is not seen as a threat to Nigeria? That is because humans give it power! Crowwe, today, is worthless that I doubt it has 500 daily visitors. And this is a government-sponsored social medium o.

And just because a despot as Buhari got its Tweet removed does not mean Jack has power. Nigerians do. They reported it enmasse and it was removed. Trump used social media to rile up his followers until they got violent and attacked the capitol. It wasn't until he got banned that questions started flying around.

Politicians should be accountable and sensible in the way they talk and address their people. Using a platform to cause chaos and turn people against themselves is a greater threat than natural disasters.

The same social media that BMCs, the APC and Lai are crying over today was instrumental to their win. The government only wants less of Fulani Herdsmen reportage and almost everyone can get the story out through social media without having to write a media house. If Nigerians were treated fairly and equally, and Buhari was true to his campaign promises, most Nigerians won't be bitter and feel excluded as they are now.

Election is coming. The APC will need Twitter again.

True, however social media doesn't win election (at least in Nigeria).. If it was social media, BuBu won't smell that seat
GEJ won all social media polls.... Foot soldiers did all the work.. Social media is overrated during elections

VTJN:
I swear o bro. That El-rufai christian version will be so nice. Wike isn't bad either. But I'll prefer El-rufai Christian version to him.

Same here o

Sanchez01:
Jonathan was removed through the help of America, specifically Obama. The APC and Buhari won on the back of social media because the relic was presented as a refurbished democrat.

Social media platforms are not strong or powerful as people assume. Crowwe is a social media platform, isn't it? How powerful is it? Why is not seen as a threat to Nigeria? That is because humans give it power! Crowwe, today, is worthless that I doubt it has 500 daily visitors. And this is a government-sponsored social medium o.

And just because a despot as Buhari got its Tweet removed does not mean Jack has power. Nigerians do. They reported it enmasse and it was removed. Trump used social media to rile up his followers until they got violent and attacked the capitol. It wasn't until he got banned that questions started flying around.

Politicians should be accountable and sensible in the way they talk and address their people. Using a platform to cause chaos and turn people against themselves is a greater threat than natural disasters.

The same social media that BMCs, the APC and Lai are crying over today was instrumental to their win. The government only wants less of Fulani Herdsmen reportage and almost everyone can get the story out through social media without having to write a media house. If Nigerians were treated fairly and equally, and Buhari was true to his campaign promises, most Nigerians won't be bitter and feel excluded as they are now.

Election is coming. The APC will need Twitter again.

Which social media did Buhari use? Aboki that has the largest population of voters in Nigeria dey use social media?

Guys think with your brains now.

It was Pdp that capitalised on social media forgetting that the people there do not have voters card.

Door to door campaign won Buhari the ticket

Who is this Adaobi, did she really understand the situation in Nigeria Or is she already a paid agent? Well she can write because she is in another mans country where everything and human right is respected and freedom of speech is allowed. If I may ask you why did you run away from Nigeria? you are there supporting the action of government against innocent Nigerians and Twitter ban. If I may ask you again when Twitter ban Donald Trump did his government ban Twitter and infringe in people right to use Twitter?

thomasjoe:
Twitter usually banns Offenders that were reported (usually with reasonable traffic)
If you had reported the Avengers or MNk issue ... They would have taken steps
..but you did not

How sure are you, that tweet wasn't reported?

Fahdiga:
Twitter really humbled this regime

Fish brain. Please explain how twitter has humbled this regime.

You are definitly not more than 15yrs.

I should probably leave you.

Sanchez01:
This is disappointing to read and quite hard to believe it was featured on BBC. Twitter didn't ban the genocidal threat tweet of Buhari. It was Nigerian Tweeps that reported it enmasse for violation. Trump was banned on the same platform for using it to instigate violence after his loss. And note, the official POTUS handle was never banned, it was that of Trump that was banned, just as that of the Nigerian government wasn't banned. Buhari wasn't even banned, the particular tweet was only deleted when he should have been banned.

But some misfits in their usual 'noli me tangere' attitude saw it as a slap on Nigeria that Twitter removed a President’s tweet.

A foreigner visiting Nigeria is subject to the laws of Nigeria, not his country of origin. Twitter has policies that every user submits to consciously or unconsciously. Buhari threatened a people directly and others reported it on a platform where policies work.

Shameful that the government-sponsored with the intention that Nigerians would embrace it after Twitter's predicted ban. But of course, it is not Twitter that is desperate. It is the APC and the Nigerian government. Twitter played an active role in their win against Jonathan and Buhari. Elections are getting closer and campaigns will start soon. They need Twitter to run their lies and $1 to N1 again.

Failed country.

If you Google the opinion piece writer. (Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani)....some of her opinion piece for bbc are questionable....outright vague and disproportionate to what so many without inclination feel on those....very disappointing to read....as also

Newton85:
What a load of spurious bulcrap! I'm even seeing the name of a Jonathan propagandist scammer like Reno "Wendell Similin" Omokri in the links you shared.

The picture answers your question.
This picture was taken Jan 2015.
The foreign Secretary of USA having a meeting with the opposition stalwarts in Lagos when Jonathan was still the PRESIDENT.

Mynd44:
People think the Nigerian government is mad. But then again, twitter has showed that it does not intend to change. Tweets like this is why twitter was banned not because they deleted a tweet.

I dare anyone of you to say this about the US government and see what will happen

Do u know what US citizens tweet about their govt when they feel the govt isnt doing enough?
The tweet by simon ekpa is simple and straight forward, nothing incriminating...
If u read it as someone with unbiased mind, u won't see anything wrong in it. But once u read it like bmc u r and a paid shit, everything is wrong with it.

Moferere:
Always endeavour to read before you comment
Illiterate Peoples of Biafra

Who are you to call people illiterate?? I must let you know that's a strong language you should mind the use of your word.

OGHENAOGIE:
UK has a constitution even if it's not a written and to cure ur ignorance a written constitution is one u can find in a single document like ours d 1999 constitution... British constitution is unwritten cos it's not in one single document...

And to cure your own comprehensive deficiency, I specifically said UK HAVE NO WRITTEN CONSTITUTION.
The law that said they can have referendum was just based on judgments (which you refered as 'documents'); the law which can as well be changed tomorrow by their legal system.

SIRTee15:
The picture answers your question.
This picture was taken Jan 2015.
The foreign Secretary of USA having a meeting with the opposition stalwarts in Lagos when Jonathan was still the PRESIDENT.

How did this meeting make Buhari win the popular vote? Did this meeting force the Northerners to vote for their brothers en masse?

My hate for bbc. No wonder their ratings is falling each seconds

Guardiola84:
Oh really? But your tweeter never censors democrats hate speeches n threats why ?u are just too dumb idiot

I am not interested in US politics. I even care less whether Donald Trump was banned or unbanned. I don't care. Dumb idiot.

This is the article that was referred to in the piece in the first post on this thread.

How Twitter Amplified the Divisions That Derailed Nigeria’s #EndSARS Movement

BY OHIMAI AMAIZE
APRIL 20, 2021. 5:50 AM

In October, when protests against police brutality erupted across Nigeria’s major cities, not even the harsh weather could deter crowds of protesters from staging public displays of dissent. With fists in the air, under the downpour of rain, scores of angry protesters—some shirtless and waving the Nigerian flag—chanted, “Who is a bad boy? Buhari is a bad boy!” referring to President Muhammadu Buhari.

In the commercial capital of Lagos, business activities stopped. For days, Africa’s biggest economy was paralyzed. As the protests got bigger and spread to other cities, the Nigerian government capitulated on Oct. 11, announcing the dissolution of SARS, the special anti-robbery unit of the Nigerian Police Force that was responsible for indiscriminate arrests, extortion, and extrajudicial killings.

The dissolution of SARS was a significant victory for the #EndSARS protests and millions of Nigerians who have been affected by police brutality. This story was widely covered—and generally celebrated—in the international press. Far less well-known but equally important is what happened next. The demonstrations split the movement, with fatal consequences. When protests continued after the formal ending of SARS—a decision about which there was serious disagreement—Nigerian security forces attacked crowds of protesters and killed several people on Oct. 20. The internal struggles of Nigeria’s main protest groups and the violent clashes between the state and its citizens may tell us a great deal about the country’s future and the shrinking civic space under the Buhari regime. But one of the most curious aspects of this story is the outsize role of the American social media company Twitter, whose CEO Jack Dorsey chose to recognize and mobilize donations toward one faction of the #EndSARS movement, inadvertently amplifying its divisions.

The campaign to end SARS began long before many in the West had heard of it. In 2017, Segun Awosanya, a realtor and human rights activist, created a nongovernmental organization called the Social Intervention Advocacy Foundation to advocate for victims of police abuse. The group promoted a two-pronged social media campaign: #EndSARS, which focused on disbanding the police unit, and #ReformPoliceNG, which advocated for police reforms. When Nigerians were arrested, extorted, or brutalized by SARS officers and other police, they immediately contacted Awosanya. His ability to effectively engage Nigerian police authorities and seek redress for many Nigerians brutalized by police instantly turned him into a social media celebrity.

But when the #EndSARS movement expanded into large street demonstrations in October, Awosanya’s role diminished. Some protesters even demanded a leaderless movement. Awosanya described it to me as a “palace coup” by his detractors and competitors to hijack the movement. He says that people began rewriting the Wikipedia page dedicated to #EndSARS and minimizing his contribution to the movement while promoting the role of others. (The Wikipedia page did indeed change to limit discussion of his role in #EndSARS.)

Ndi Kato, a gender activist who participated in the protests, disputed this characterization and insisted the reality was much simpler: The campaign changed as it grew into a mass movement. “Young people wanted to hold the government accountable, young people needed to rise up, and young women showed up. It wasn’t hijacked from anyone,” she told me. While Awosanya deserves credit for his work in starting and promoting the movement, Kato thinks he suffers from something of a “savior complex.”

One of the groups that emerged as the protests escalated in size and importance was the Feminist Coalition, which created a nationwide system that worked to ensure the release of arrested protesters by raising and disbursing funds for the movement and establishing a legal aid service composed of volunteers. The Feminist Coalition is part of a long Nigerian legacy of women spearheading social movements, including the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929 and the Abeokuta Women’s Union founded by activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti in 1946. And it is mostly to the credit of the women-led Feminist Coalition that the #EndSARS protests endured after Oct. 11, when Buhari announced that SARS had been disbanded. The Feminist Coalition felt confident that unless protests continued, this would remain an empty promise.

The demonstrations escalated domestically and abroad, as members of the Nigerian diaspora in London, Berlin, New York, and elsewhere organized #EndSARS protests in solidarity.

Awosanya, however, considered the strategy of continued protests overly aggressive, unrealistic, and unsustainable. He later described it as “the old system of throwing tantrums, burning things, creating chaos, blocking roads, and inconveniencing the people.” Isolated and on the sidelines of a movement he had helped start, Awosanya found himself on opposite sides from some of his former allies.

On Oct. 14, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got involved. He tweeted two links with the hashtag #EndSARS, one to a page curating stories of victims of SARS and police brutality in Nigeria’s tech community and the other to the official website of the Feminist Coalition—a significant endorsement for the group. Dorsey went further with another tweet calling for Bitcoin donations “to help #EndSARS.” Twitter subsequently created a tight-fist emoji draped in the Nigerian flag to support the movement. With the help of Dorsey’s endorsement, the Feminist Coalition managed to raise $150,000 in Bitcoin donations after its bank account was deactivated by Nigerian authorities.

Twitter also took the somewhat unusual step of verifying the handle of the Feminist Coalition as well as those of some of its members and other protest advocates. Twitter reserves its blue verification checkmark for accounts it regards as especially prominent, authentic, and authoritative. However, Twitter did not verify Awosanya’s account, even though it has more than 700,000 followers, nearly four times more than the Feminist Coalition, and had been the face of #EndSARS since 2017. The support of Twitter and its CEO was seen as a recognition and endorsement of the Feminist Coalition’s leadership of the entire #EndSARS movement. Twitter had inadvertently selected the leaders of Nigeria’s social movement against police brutality and effectively escalated the rivalry that had already fractured the movement.

But “Twitter really helped to amplify the movement, and that was a great thing,” according to Kato, who supported the Feminist Coalition in this fight but is not a member. “I like that Jack cares about causes and this is one of them.” In contrast, she pointed out, Facebook took down some of the #EndSARS posts on its platform, a move the social media company subsequently apologized for. (It said that the takedown was a result of anti-COVID misinformation measures; the algorithms were keeping an eye out for the acronym SARS because it’s also the name of the 2003 disease caused by a coronavirus.)

Embittered by Twitter’s role during the #EndSARS protests, Awosanya said it merely reflects how much the world now equates social media clout with the meaning of truth, calling it a form of “jungle justice.”

Bolstered by the endorsement it had received from Twitter and the tremendous goodwill it was now enjoying from many Nigerians, Feminist Coalition continued its protest campaign and fundraising on social media. In the days that followed, it managed to fund more than 154 protests across Nigeria and successfully raised more than $190,000.

On Oct. 18, Awosanya issued a statement withdrawing from the #EndSARS protests, going so far as to say continued actions were “threatening the integrity of our nation and gunning for youth insurrection in the name of #EndSARS”—essentially, insinuating that the sustained protests were tantamount to a mobilization of Nigerian youths to overthrow the government.

Two days later, Nigerian security forces fired on crowds of demonstrators in Lagos, killing at least 10 people, according to Amnesty International.

Two days after the Oct. 20 shooting, Buhari made a nationwide broadcast in which he made clear that any further protests would not be tolerated. He urged the protesters to “resist the temptation of being used by some subversive elements to cause chaos with the aim of truncating our nascent democracy.” Failure to do this “will amount to undermining national security.”

Many heard clear echoes of Awosanya’s own words in the language Buhari was using to squelch the protest movement. Kato said that Awosanya, by using phrases like “youth insurrection” and “threatening the integrity of our nation,” gave the Nigerian government justification for using force. “Those words put a lot of young people in danger. People have lost their lives.”

Awosanya disputed accusations that his controversial statements provided the Nigerian government with the ammunition to discredit and descend on the demonstrations with force. “Nobody discredited anybody—they did that all by themselves. They were already discredited.”

Professor Chidi Odinkalu, a former chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission and currently senior team manager for the Africa Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative, recently reflected on the split in the protest movement. “On social media, people can get lost in their own propaganda and begin to see the growth of others in that ecosystem as a diminution of their own worth. Someone like Segun Awosanya, for instance, began to see himself in a world entirely of his own making as the alter ego of #EndSARS,” Odinkalu told me.

But more broadly, Twitter’s role in Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests raises concerns about how big American tech companies make decisions on developments in countries with contexts they do not understand. “If you’re sitting in Toronto or San Francisco or in a place other than Lagos, unless you have the benefit of exposure to the cultural dynamics of the country, it is going to be difficult to take a constructive step,” said Enrique Piracés, director of the technology program at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science.

In May, in another example of how cultural and geographic distance can flummox U.S.-based tech companies, Facebook deactivated the accounts of at least 60 Tunisian activists with no explanation. Citing “technical error,” it later restored some of the accounts, after a petition by Access Now. The online advocacy group noted that Facebook’s “technical error” “reinforces the widely-shared perception that Facebook is only committed to honoring the rights of users in the United States and Europe.”

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. But on April 12, Jack Dorsey announced in a tweet that the company will be opening its first African office in Ghana. The announcement comes after Facebook announced in 2020 that it was opening a new office in Lagos.

Meanwhile, as conversations continue on Nigerian social media about a second wave of #EndSARS protests, Buhari has tweeted about his disgust, particularly with CNN’s and BBC’s coverage of the protests. But how far his government will go to crush future #EndSARS protests remains to be seen.

Whatever happens, Kato believes the coming wave of protests is unstoppable, noting that the protests will be carried out by “people you cannot tell to go back inside.”

https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/endsars-nigeria-twitter-jack-dorsey-feminist-coalition.html

An #EndSARS protest in Lagos, Nigeria, on Oct. 14. Photo illustration by Slate. Images by Twitter and Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Moferere:
Always endeavour to read before you comment Illiterate Peoples of Biafra

AKPAMU

Mynd44:
People think the Nigerian government is mad. But then again, twitter has showed that it does not intend to change. Tweets like this is why twitter was banned not because they deleted a tweet.

I dare anyone of you to say this about the US government and see what will happen

But you're free to report the post if you find it offensive.
Twitter doesn't just ban posts. They get reported.
As a mod on Nairaland, I'm sure you know that.

Moferere:
Always endeavour to read before you comment
Illiterate Peoples of Biafra

Now go back to your post before oga sack u of your 10k job.

U know it means so much to you

Newton85:
How did this meeting make Buhari win the popular vote? Did this meeting force the Northerners to vote for their brothers en masse?

So u think it was northern votes that gave buhari the presidency in 2015?
Buhari massively won the northern votes in 2003 and 2011 when he contested against a southerner still never became President.
You should then ask yourself what changed in 2015.

In case u want to play the ostrich, that picture and tinubu were the game changer for buhari in 2015.

See the nonsense they write for 300 dollars.

ityP:
Stupid take. Twitter is no party to any government, it's a personal blogging company. There are terms and conditions to using the app. If you post a tweet that calls for self harm or the harming of a person or group of persons, regardless of who the Bleep you are, if it's reported, it would be deleted. If you continue on such path, your account may even be suspended or banned. Twitter is not bothered if you use other social media platforms to spew hate. It just would tolerate it. Same thing applies to nairaland. It is a personal forum. If Buhari comes here and sends a vile, hateful and reckless message, direct to Nigerians or a select group of Nigerians, if it's reported, he will be sanctioned. He can decide never to use nairaland or in this case, Twitter. And that's his fucking business

Brilliant submission

seunmsg:
I totally disagree. Mention five people that have been locked up for criticizing the government.

I don't need to. I leave you to your beliefs.

naptu2:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58175708.amp

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is journalist-for-hire na.

Her and Frederick Nwabufo belong to the same Whatsapp group.
No serious persons takes their opinions seriously.

SIRTee15:
So u think it was northern votes that gave buhari the presidency in 2015?
Buhari massively won the northern votes in 2003 and 2011 when he contested against a southerner still never became President.
You should then ask yourself what changed in 2015.

In case u want to play the ostrich, that picture and tinubu were the game changer for buhari in 2015.

What changed in 2015 was Buhari's collaboration with the South West, led by Tinubu. I thought everyone knew this?

Newton85:
What changed in 2015 was Buhari's collaboration with the South West, led by Tinubu. I thought everyone knew this?

Buhari collaboration with Tunubu was not enough to win the election

PDP lost due to their losing the middle belt which was lost due to local party divisions.

Sanchez01:
This is disappointing to read and quite hard to believe it was featured on BBC. Twitter didn't ban the genocidal threat tweet of Buhari. It was Nigerian Tweeps that reported it enmasse for violation. Trump was banned on the same platform for using it to instigate violence after his loss. And note, the official POTUS handle was never banned, it was that of Trump that was banned, just as that of the Nigerian government wasn't banned. Buhari wasn't even banned, the particular tweet was only deleted when he should have been banned.

But some misfits in their usual 'noli me tangere' attitude saw it as a slap on Nigeria that Twitter removed a President’s tweet.

A foreigner visiting Nigeria is subject to the laws of Nigeria, not his country of origin. Twitter has policies that every user submits to consciously or unconsciously. Buhari threatened a people directly and others reported it on a platform where policies work.

Shameful that the government-sponsored with the intention that Nigerians would embrace it after Twitter's predicted ban. But of course, it is not Twitter that is desperate. It is the APC and the Nigerian government. Twitter played an active role in their win against Jonathan and Buhari. Elections are getting closer and campaigns will start soon. They need Twitter to run their lies and $1 to N1 again.

Failed country.

If its a failed country pls pack ur foolishness and leave we don't need people like u after all. U don't even have d right for an opinion about Nigeria when ur ancestors derailed the first democratically elected government and usher in the first military leadership all based on ethics sentiments. U re supposed to hide ur shame till end of this world coz u re a curse to our nation from it's inception. U people are refugees in Nigeria not citizens.

Beancounter94:
Buhari collaboration with Tunubu was not enough to win the election

PDP lost due to their losing the middle belt which was lost due to local party divisions.

If so, was it Obama that made Jonathan lose the middle belt then?

Newton85:
If so, was it Obama that made Jonathan lose the middle belt then?

I never said in any of my posts on this thread that pdp lost because Obama.

PDP loss in 2015 was all on them. Not on the USA.

If you got my post correctly , PDP lost becauae they lost the middle belt.

Beancounter94:
I never said in any of my posts on this thread that pdp lost because Obama.

PDP loss in 2015 was all on them. Not on the USA.

If you got my post correctly , PDP lost becauae they lost the middle belt.

Alright.