Tag: Twitter
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#TwitterBan: ‘Show us proofs’, Keyamo denies APC used social media to ‘set country ablaze’ as opposition
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) on Tuesday denied that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) used the social media as opposition to promote content capable of setting the country ablaze. He said some Nigerians are taking undue advantage of the #TwitterBan in the country to blackmail the Federal Government.…
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FG insists Twitter ban is in Nigeria’s interest
Alhaji, Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, has said that the Federal Government’s ban on Twitter’s operations was in the country’s interest. The minister, who stated this when he appeared before the House Committee on Information on Tuesday, in Abuja, cited various sections of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria…
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Twitter gave IPOB free access to promote violence in Nigeria, Minister tells Reps
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused social media giant Twitter of providing a platform for secessionist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to promote violence in the country. He made the allegation on Tuesday in his presentation before members of the House Representatives Joint Committee on the suspension of Twitter at…
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BREAKING: ECOWAS Court stops Buhari from arresting, prosecuting Nigerians for using Twitter
The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling on Tuesday “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs and other Nigerians who…
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Buhari approves six ministers to engage Twitter over suspension
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a six man ministerial team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The approval was announced in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who will chair the…
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Next level is self destruction with Twitter – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale “The rate of change in our time is so swift; that an individual of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which have no parallel in the past. The fixed person for the fixed duties; who in the old society, was such a God-send, will in the future…
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Suspension of Twitter helped FG in curbing fake news from PDP – Presidency
The presidency on Wednesday lamponed governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are sad over the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, because it has affected the opposition party’s ability to spread fake news”. Recall the federal government suspended the microblogging platform over claims that it is being used to threaten Nigeria’s peaceful…
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Minister attacks Twitter over new social media rules
India’s information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at Twitter on Wednesday, accusing it of not complying with new regulations for social media sites that came into effect last month. The new “intermediary guidelines” were aimed at regulating content on large social media platforms and messaging services like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter that had…
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Twitter ban: Our laws cannot be subservient to international laws – Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said Nigerian laws cannot be subservient to international laws. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mohammed stated this in his presentation at an ongoing public hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Information to amend National Broadcasting Commission, (NBC) Act. The minister apparently referring to the imbroglio between the…
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One Tweet and a nation in a trail of trouble, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Let me state without equivocation that it looks to me that Nigeria never really forgave Twitter for taking its African headquarters to neighboring Ghana. So all that shemozzle about the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Tweet being removed was a deliberate scheme to excavate a residual hurt and manipulate it to mask or obviate…