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Nigeria Bans Twitter After Presidentâs Tweet Is Deleted
The popular social media site had removed a post by President Muhammadu Buhari threatening secessionists in the southeast of the country.
Some saw President Muhammadu Buhariâs now-deleted tweet as a threat against the Igbo ethnic group that is in the majority in Nigeriaâs southeast.Credit.Pool photo by Ludovic Marin
June 5, 2021, 8:24 a.m. ET
DAKAR, Senegal â Nigeria has blocked Twitter after the social media site deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened secessionist groups in the southeast of the country who had been responsible for attacks on government offices.
Alexander O. Onukwue
14th May 2021 Nigeria Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with members of the Paystack team at their Lagos office in April 2018
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One landmark acquisition, several funding rounds and meaningful expansions have drawn attention to Nigeria’s potential to become an enabling environment for businesses. Nigerian tech startups are raising larger seed rounds and pursuing unique global ambitions than at any other time in the last decade.
But in the last 18 months, major regulatory events that ended motorcycle-hailing and suspended cryptocurrency transactions through banks have been interpreted as setbacks to innovation.
One problem with these types of regulations is how sudden they are, seemingly without forewarning from the hammer bearers. They raise an unambiguous question: can startups really flourish in Nigeria?
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It is no secret that the diversity of the workforce at technology firms is a big problem. Between 2013-2017, only 1% of VC-backed entrepreneurs were Black and 9.2% were women. This underrepresentation repeats itself across every part of the industry. Fewer than 6% of employees at Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft identify as Black. At venture capital firms, only 6% of all employees and 3% of partners were Black, according to a 2018 study by Deloitte and NVCA. Only 14% of venture capital partners are women.