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The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami says Twitter Inc has apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and vowed to abide by the country's rules.

The Buhari-led government had on June 4 announced the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria. Telecommunication companies started blocking access to Twitter on June 5, after they received a directive from the Nigerian Communications Commission to block access to the social media platform.

The Nigerian government had cited the persistent use of the platform for activities capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence as the reason for the suspension.

Following the ban, groups including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) had dragged the government to the ECOWAS court.

In defence, Malami told the ECOWAS court of Justice that Twitter tendered an apology to the current administration.

“The Court should also take a Judicial Notice that Twitter Inc Service had already approached the Defendant with an apology and a promise to be law-abiding to all the countries rules, regulations and policies,” Malami said, in a document seen by Peoples Gazette.

The court adjourned the hearing until January 2022 for a ruling.

Buhari on Friday directed that the Twitter ban should be conditionally lifted.

He made the announcement in his nationwide broadcast to Nigerians to mark Nigeria's 61st Independence Anniversary.

According to Buhari, some social media users should be blamed for the ban by misusing the platform to propagate fake news and promote religious and ethnic sentiments.

He said, “Social media is a very useful platform that has enabled millions of Nigerians to connect with loved ones, promote their businesses, socialise, and access news and other information.

“However, recent events have shown that the platform is not just an innocuous platform for information dissemination.

“Rather some users have misused the platform to organise, coordinate, and execute criminal activities, propagate fake news, and promote ethnic and religious sentiments.

"To address these negative trends, the Federal Government of Nigeria suspended the operations of Twitter in Nigeria on June 5, 2021, to allow the Government to put measures in place to address these challenges.

"Following the suspension of Twitter operations, Twitter Inc. reached out to the Federal Government of Nigeria to resolve the impasse. Subsequently, I constituted a Presidential Committee to engage Twitter to explore the possibility of resolving the issue.

“The Committee, along with its Technical Team, has engaged with Twitter and have addressed a number of key issues. These are National Security and Cohesion; Registration, Physical presence and Representation; Fair Taxation; Dispute Resolution; and Local Content.

"Following the extensive engagements, the issues are being addressed and I have directed that the suspension be lifted but only if the conditions are met to allow our citizens to continue the use of the platform for business and positive engagements.

“As a country, we are committed to ensuring that digital companies use their platform to enhance the lives of our citizens, respect Nigeria’s sovereignty, cultural values and promote online safety.”

http://saharareporters.com/2021/10/01/twitter-has-apologised-buhari-regime-promise-follow-orders-%E2%80%93-attorney-general-tells-court

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Story for the gods..

Let the wailling begin .
Miserable rodents go soon land

triple996:
Let the wailling begin .
Miserable rodents go soon land

Na u dey wail since u no fit tweet,abi u follow dey use VPN even as APC terrorist miscreant?

You are suffering and smiling, deceiving only yourself

Continue to deceive yaself.

Ovoko!

I hope this man is not trying to take over Mr lie's job.

Breakink news;

Malu "" Twitter ignores cows and dungs-pieces of shit"

Malumi continue deceiving the rest of your cows.

Zombies.

Lori iro

Hahahaha plentiful wahala for who will believe this with his whole heart

Buhari regime after twitter Apology ........

Twitter apologised and we dis not see the letter or the pictures or even the date 5he apology took place, especially considering this is a government of media propaganda.

I think the right thing is Buhari has apologised to Twitter through Lai Mohamm3d.

Skyfly007:
Story for the gods..

Indeed, Another episode of super story from d stable of Wale Adenuga directed by Senior Advocate of Northern Nonsense Malami.
"we are nothing but pencil in d hand of dis terrorist government".

This people should just safe face and unblock the app. It does not appear they're winning or they could ever win this unnecessary ego war.

Haven't they moved on to another app?

Coming from Malami I no believe you, let’s wait for Twitter to confirm weda deh apologize or not.

Malami + Pantami = Stupid terrorists

Useless and stupid malami

The most useless attorney general

Is liar general of d federation Major General Lai Mohammed not around to tell us dis beautiful independence lie that this simp just adduced here?
Anyway, I respect dis cap,even in his absence d cap is capable of representing,making known his mind,actions>>>>>

Same Twitter that doesn't give bleep about you and your president

Since jack ridiculed him publicy we are expecting the public apology not the one you lie to yourself

You must be stupid. Buhari put out a genocidal tweet which was taken down by Twitter. If buhari puts out any of such foolish tweet, Twitter would slap him once more.

okay

How come the federal government is the only party talking about the twitter b.an, Nigerians are not complaining because they have ways to open twitter and the twitter company are not talking about it either. It shows federal government is the loser on this matter

Great achievement by buhari. VPN is there for people that tweets, so whether it's banned or unbanned, it makes no difference

Regime?

Thank God you called it Buharis Regime.

Story!

Let his tweet nonsense and Twitter will delete it again.

Video evidence or I don't believe it.

Proof? I'm following Jack and he didn't tweet anything like that, coming from same man quoting penal code of northern Nigeria as the Nigerian constitution, is this man truly a SAN? Or he's using oluwole certificate?