Breaking: Buhari Govt Finally Bares Fangs As MTN, GLO, Airtel Deactivate Twitter

The Muhammadu Buhari Government has put paid to its vow to stop the operations of the microblogging site, Twitter in Nigeria as it midnight carried out its directive with the deactivation of the site on the four major networks in the country.

The government had cited what it alleged as the persistent use of the platform for activities directed at undermining the corporate existence of the country as its reason which until recently was thought of as unheard of.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG understands that a directive was, on Friday night given to telecommunication networks to deactivate twitter by 12 midnight. All the networks have apparently given heed to the directive as the site was not loading.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG checks on Saturday morning showed that twitter was not loading as the Buhari government gave vent to its directive.

 It would be recalled that the Federal Government through the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had on Friday, in statement released by Segun Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the President (Media), similarly directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in the country.

The statement read, “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria.

“The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.

The Minister said the Federal Government has also directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria.”

The government’s move has been criticized across board with a few support coming from supports of the government.

The decision by the Buhari administration to cut off Nigeria from Twitter in the face of technological advances across the world is bound to be unnerving.

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