Sanchez01:

The 'everything' Twitter agreed to, even though unknown to the BBC team, has to be included to push their junk journalism.

This is what happens when one has to write but does not understand what truly happened.

Very sad coming from a supposedly reputable media house.

Twitter has agreed to nothing and has done nothing, the government just needs the platform to run election propaganda, that is the only thing that happened.

Nothing else changed

helinues:


How would you believe it if I tell you? You are not even aware of this new tax generating before dropping your first comment

Have they managed to completely track Nigerian's, under their nose ........


You just buy all the nonsense, by this incompetent government......

You also believe 100,000,000 Nigerian's, would be out of poverty by 2023 ..............

safarigirl:


Very sad coming from a supposedly reputable media house.

Twitter has agreed to nothing and has done nothing, the government just needs the platform to run election propaganda, that is the only thing that happened.

Nothing else changed

You get it! It is an ego trip for the government which is why the government couldn't come out in the first place to make known the demands Twitter agreed to.

blackaxe78:
What a whole Trump and Republicans could not do in America, His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) achieved it without blinking!

A dogged leader!

Dogged fighter ko, Catted fighter ni.

Dogged fighter that bandits are raping and killing his cousins, nephews, uncles and aunties everyday in his home town.

Freetech:
BBC saying all these rubbish? Where were they when UK arrested & prosecuted many students who participated in the Education protests of 2009? Where was there voice wikileak was declared wanted? They human rights in Africa but turn blind eye to same in Europe and Asia. Who abuse human rights like Russia, Saudis and China in Africa?

Just open your economy to them, then you can go on and do anything. Their true meaning of human rights abuses is when you refused to allow them colonize your economy through their arms sale, companies and numerous bank used to help politicians laundered funds.

No mind them. Na only for Africa dem dey show their power.

News from BBC Nigeria

kingthreat:
For you to support a tech company of less than 1000 people over your country definitely means you can support another man over your own father. Betrayal is in their blood. On this Twitter issue, I wholeheartedly support Nigeria.

To continually support a dictator and an ethnic bigot who continues to impoverish your kith and kin with his litany of people-unfriendly policies shows that you have no regard for your own father and others that make up your family. I'm sure you're a disgrace to wherever the Bleep you come from.

tempest01:
Lol...apart from taxing Nigerians when they do business on Twitter, there is absolutely nothing else this government will gain from Twitter. Their office stays in Ghana and they will not abuse their users fundamental rights and privacy because the Nigerian government wishes so.

I make bold to say that if a tweet does not break Twitter's rules, this government cannot make them delete it.

I am very sure that Twitter would have read their demands, told them they would charge Nigerians for taxes and remit same and then left them with their foolish erratic demands till they were tired and had to save face with the vague wins they posted for the BMC crew to wallow in.

We will see a time goes. Twitter alone as an organisation is more valuable than this mismanaged contraption. They hold the negotiating power.

When Igbos sit in their village typing rubbish that they know nothing about all because you hate your own country.

Human right abuse is worse in Ghana than the rest of Africa gan sef..

So, Tweeter Africa HQ is now in Abuja. Bunch of confused APC miscreabts, masturbating at crumbs thrown to them by white man

I supported the ban because deleting the president’s tweet was trampling on free speech and it’s a huge opportunity for Nigeria to realize more revenue

techmo:
A regulated social media would be beneficial to all, both elite and masses

why a tryant govt with no iota of respect for rule of law remains a doom to all, both economy and the masses.

tempest01:
Lol...apart from taxing Nigerians when they do business on Twitter, there is absolutely nothing else this government will gain from Twitter. Their office stays in Ghana and they will not abuse their users fundamental rights and privacy because the Nigerian government wishes so.

I make bold to say that if a tweet does not break Twitter's rules, this government cannot make them delete it.

I am very sure that Twitter would have read their demands, told them they would charge Nigerians for taxes and remit same and then left them with their foolish erratic demands till they were tired and had to save face with the vague wins they posted for the BMC crew to wallow in.

We will see a time goes. Twitter alone as an organisation is more valuable than this mismanaged contraption. They hold the negotiating power.

lol you think Buhari gives a fucck about Twitter?
Between Buhari who doesn't even know what Twitter is and Twitter that are generating millions dollars in Nigeria who do you think was under more pressure to crack?
If Twitter didn't bend to the government they would have even forgotten about them. Those social media fools thought they could treat everyone the same way they treated Trump

Aufbauh:
Indeed Nigeria has fought a good fight of sovereign authority and has set an outstanding precedence against the Hi-tech companies in Africa.

How ??

Twitter is yet to open a naira account not to talk of having an office in nigeria

Still the ban was lifted, as anyone noticed or. complain of restriction to free of speech.

Can you tell us what as changed so far, the ban was lifted.

I can't imagine that BBC News published this shameful article!

Validated:
So, Tweeter Africa HQ is now in Abuja. Bunch of confused APC miscreabts, masturbating at crumbs thrown to them by white man

Do we really care where they rent HQ?

Majority in Nigeria don't even use Twitter, it's number 5 when it comes to popular Social media platforms in Nigeria. Their revenue is meager $4 billion while we have more powerful and richer TECH Giants like FB and Google with over $ Trillion valuation opening multiple offices all over Nigeria.

Nigeria is the Number 1 TECH country in Africa, Ghana is not even on the scale, so of what relevance is Twitter and Ghana to us.

The office they open in Ghana is a remote office with 11 people working from home, but they will open and staff their office in Nigeria and pay us taxes, the kind of taxes that pays salaries, build roads and bridges here in Nigeria

I don't know why you and your kind always think people and entities that are beneath you are better than you


How sad and pathetic can you people be?

blackaxe78:
What a whole Trump and Republicans could not do in America, His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) achieved it without blinking!

A dogged leader!

And this is what makes countries weak... America is a great country precisely because it has strong institutions - and people committed - to protect against tyranny.

A leader that does exactly the opposite of what is ultimately good for the country and its citizens, is that a leader?

Anytime I see news about Nigeria on BBC, I always try to read between the lines. Nigeria is still a neo-colony, whether we realize it or not, and it's good to pat your pet dog once in a while.

BBC is shameless!
Look at the headline on the mobile phone news of the attached picture and you will understand this is a propaganda news.

tempest01:
Lol...apart from taxing Nigerians when they do business on Twitter, there is absolutely nothing else this government will gain from Twitter. Their office stays in Ghana and they will not abuse their users fundamental rights and privacy because the Nigerian government wishes so.

I make bold to say that if a tweet does not break Twitter's rules, this government cannot make them delete it.

I am very sure that Twitter would have read their demands, told them they would charge Nigerians for taxes and remit same and then left them [s] with their foolish erratic demands till they were tired and had to save face with the vague wins they posted for the BMC crew to wallow in. [/s]

We will see a time goes. Twitter alone as an organisation is more valuable than this mismanaged contraption. They hold the negotiating power.

I'm not sure you're communicating at all.

Doyou2019:


To continually support a dictator and an ethnic bigot who continues to impoverish your kith and kin with his litany of people-unfriendly policies shows that you have no regard for your own father and others that make up your family. I'm sure you're a disgrace to wherever the Bleep you come from.

Stop changing the context. The conversation here is about Government and Twitter. If you wish to deviate, we could deviate to talking about the incestous acts in you do regularly that twisted your mentality to be this low.

nextstep:


And this is what makes countries weak... America is a great country precisely because it has strong institutions - and people committed - to protect against tyranny.

A leader that does exactly the opposite of what is ultimately good for the country and its citizens, is that a leader?

Anytime I see news about Nigeria on BBC, I always try to read between the lines. Nigeria is still a neo-colony, whether we realize it or not, and it's good to pat your pet dog once in a while.

Destructions caused by the Endsars protesters which was supported and promoted by twitter actually made Nigeria weak

blackaxe78:
What a whole Trump and Republicans could not do in America, His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) achieved it without blinking!

A dogged leader!

Forget the sensational heading and read between the lines.
This article only painted buhari with a black paint.

Read again and carefully.

safarigirl:


Very sad coming from a supposedly reputable media house.

Twitter has agreed to nothing and has done nothing, the government just needs the platform to run election propaganda, that is the only thing that happened.

Nothing else changed

Why fighting this tooth and nail? U be Jack Donkey?

Aufbauh:
Indeed Nigeria has fought a good fight of sovereign authority and has set an outstanding precedence against the Hi-tech companies in Africa.

Onukwu! Twitter is a one man business. Which sovereign authority?

kingthreat:


Stop changing the context. The conversation here is about Government and Twitter. If you wish to deviate, we could deviate to talking about the incestous acts in you do regularly that twisted your mentality to be this low.

Buhari is a useless clueless mannequin.

Like 1983 like 2015!

GetMeRight:


Why fighting this tooth and nail? U be Jack Donkey?

You Bmcs thought every other person is daft too.
Read the passage well and see that the post portrays an already failed government in the worst light.

Well this is one thing Buhari did right. Clipping Twitter's wings.
Buhari did the right thing in this matter.

I'm not a Buhari fan or supporter, but foreign companies need to respect the countries they're operating in. They need to understand that what is normal in their own countries may not be normal in another country.

This is where the world is heading to, as more and more governments begin to regulate social media, tech and social media companies have to abide by the laws and culture of countries that they operate in.

BeardedmeatR:
Buhari is a useless clueless mannequin.

Like 1983 like 2015!

I am no Buhari supporter, so if you think you wanted to get at me you wasted your MB.

Lol. America is not Nigeria.
Also, a good number of people hate Trump. If it were Obama or Clinton that was trying to take down social media companies like twitter, they would have succeeded.

blackaxe78:
What a whole Trump and Republicans could not do in America, His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) achieved it without blinking!

A dogged leader!

blackaxe78:
What a whole Trump and Republicans could not do in America, His Excellence, President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) achieved it without blinking!

A dogged leader!

Buhari could ban Twitter and get away with it in Nigeria simply because it's a foreign company and we have a docile citizenry in Nigeria under Buhari, who are ready to accept any sh*t thrown at them. That's why he is tinkering with the idea of "removing" subsidy and increasing fuel price to over #340 per litre next month because he knows we will just shout and that's where it will end. In the US and other developed countries it is different. Even if Trump really wanted to ban Twitter in the US, he can never try that as it will backfire badly. Twitter is an American multi-billion company. Do you know what banning it will do in terms of employment and the economy in the US. It will be perceived as the government killing its own indigenous firm. Even Trump supporters will turn on him and the move will be seriously counterproductive.

On this I agree

Aufbauh:
Indeed Nigeria has fought a good fight of sovereign authority and has set an outstanding precedence against the Hi-tech companies in Africa.

Twitter is a company, not a country, they need more people on their platform, if the people saying Nigerian government clipped Twitter wings knows what they call global corporate business. They will sit down and start crying and thinking about their own lives now. Besides... Twitter must respect the sovereignty of any country, no matter how small the country be.
So the person that writes this article is only one of APC slave