The Nigerian Government said it will lift its ban on operations of micro blogging platform, twitter in a matter of days
Lai Mohammed, Minister of information and culture, disclosed this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
According to the minister, conversations with the authorities of the microblogging site have reached an amicable stage, with agreements reached in all areas except three.
He said the areas still pending such as Twitter setting up an office and having a Twitter staff of management cadre that will serve as the country representative, were being discussed.
On the setting up of a Nigerian office, the minister explained that even though Twitter has agreed to the condition, it is however maintaining the earliest it can establish it is 2022.
Nigeria suspended Twitter’s operations in June after the social media platform deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari, citing breach of the site’s rules.
However, the federal government has maintained that the suspension had nothing to do with the deletion of the President’s tweets.