Many Nigerians have been continuing to tweet in defiance of government threats to arrest and prosecute anyone violating the ban it imposed on Twitter.
They are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass the ban after telecommunications companies heeded the government s directive and blocked the micro-blogging site.
Gbenga Sesan of the Paradigm Initiative, which offers digital opportunities to young people across Africa, said the government s ban had backfired. Guess what? The only people who have been muted right now appear to be the government themselves. Yes, some businesses are not tweeting because clearly, they do not want to be punished, but the citizens they were trying to proscribe are still tweeting, he told the BBC.
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Major ones include MTN Nigeria, Glo Mobile, Airtel and 9Mobile.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Jun 04, 2021
Telecom operators in Nigeria on Friday deactivated Twitter on their networks, SaharaReporters has gathered.
Major ones include MTN Nigeria, Glo Mobile, Airtel and 9Mobile.
Nigerians who spoke with SaharaReporters said they could not access the microblogging site on their phone and computers.
The Nigerian government suspended Twitter s operations indefinitely after accusing the micro-blogging site of undermining Nigeria s existence .
In a statement on Friday, Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information, said the government was forced to act because of the persistent use of the platform for activities capable of undermining Nigeria s corporate existence .
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