President Muhammadu Buhari has lifted the suspension on Twitter operations in Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday lifted the suspension placed on Twitter from operating in Nigeria for deleting his post.⁠

The president said Twitter would start re-operating in Nigeria with effect from 12.00am, January 13, 2022.⁠

The lifting of the suspension was contained in a statement issued by the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement, Kashifu Abdullahi.

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The statement read in part, “The Federal Government of Nigeria directs me to inform the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12 am tonight, January 13, 2022.

“The approval was given following a memo written to the President by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami.”

Seeing this as indeed, as a welcome development by many particularly, Nigerians, recall that the micro-blogging site had been on Nigeria’s ban list for about 222 days.