President Muhammadu Buhari administration said the ban on operations on microblogging platforms, Twitter, will be lifted “in a matter of days”.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave this update after the week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Providing updates on the government’s negotiation with the micro-blogging site, the Minister gave more details of the conditions given to the platform, saying most of them have been accepted.
He said “The end for amicable resolution is very much insight.
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‘We appreciate the patience of Nigerians. I want to assure you that we have made very tremendous progress. We have met with Twitter both physically and in writing. We are actually almost there.
” The engagement has been extremely positive without any acrimony. We have made it clear what we want from Twitter.”
Mohammed stated that some of the conditions made by the Federal Government for Twitter operations to resume in Nigeria include that Twitter setting up an office and having a Twitter staff of management cadre that will serve as the country representative, were being discussed.
Mohammed revealed in the area of a Nigerian office, even though Twitter has agreed to the condition, it is, however, maintaining the earliest it can establish it is 2022.
The Minister expressed confidence everything will be hammered out with Twitter within a few days or weeks, noting the anxiety shown by Nigerians.
He said the Federal Government’s committee negotiating with Twitter will meet on the agreement soon to make recommendations.
