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The Federal Government has lifted the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria after approval by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nation Newspaper has reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision was announced by the Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kashifu, in a statement in Abuja, said the approval was given following a memo written to the President by Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) directs me to inform the public that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operation in Nigeria effective from 12am tonight, 13th January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe approval was given following a memo written to the President by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Memo, the Minister updated and requested the President\u2019s approval for the lifting based on the Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement\u2019s recommendation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"… The Federal Government has lifted the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria after approval by President Muhammadu…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53,381],"class_list":{"0":"post-2234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-nigeria","8":"tag-twitter"},"yoast_head":"\nFG Lifts Twitter Suspension\u00a0 - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/fg-lifts-twitter-suspension\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FG Lifts Twitter Suspension\u00a0 - 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