After drawing backlash among social media users and human rights activists for violations of freedom of expression and hurting the ways of doing business in Nigeria, the government of Africa’s most populous nation said that it ‘expects’ to lift its ban on Twitter, announced in June, in a “few days”.
The announcement raised hopes among Twitter users eager to return to the social media platform three months after the suspension took effect.
Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed told a post-cabinet media briefing today that the country’s government was aware of the anxiety Twitter ban had created among Nigerians.
“If the operation has been suspended for about 100 days now, I can tell you that we’re just actually talking about a few, just a few more days now,” Mohammed said, without giving a time frame.
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