Twitter finally banned in Nigeria

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The decision of Federal Government to ban the operations of microblogging site, Twitter in Nigeria has taken full effect. This came up after citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining the nation’s corporate existence as its reason for the action.

A directive was, Friday night, given to telecommunication companies in the country to deactivate twitter by 12 midnight- an instruction that has now been fully carried out.

Checks by Sdb Live reporter this morning revealed that tweets were not loading across all devices.

An attempt to refresh tweets returned the message “Tweets aren’t loading right now.

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Written by: Sdb Live News

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