Nigerians React As Twitter Officially Stops In Nigeria
Nigerians reacts as popular microblogging platform, Twitter has officially stopped its operation in Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This comes hours after Federal Government announced the suspension of Twitter in a recent statement signed by Lai Mohammed.
It was earlier gathered also by News Direct that the Minister said the Federal Government has also directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately commence the process of licensing all OTT and social media operations in Nigeria.
The Twitter app in Nigeria currently displays ‘Tweets aren’t loading right now. Try again’ but when connected to a VPN, the app begins to work perfectly fine.
Here are reactions gathered below by NEWS DIRECT correspondent.
@hustleuthman wrote: “U can’t ban boko haram. U can’t ban terrorism. U can’t ban kidnapping. U can’t ban insecurity. U can’t ban wicked government officials. But u can ban twitter, So Twitter is ur problem?? Twitter has provided jobs for some people more than Buhari did in 6years. #TwitterBan”
@darlytheboy wrote: “These niggas weren’t joking wtf. my Twitter no dey work without vpn”
@trending_mendic wrote: “My Twitter has stopped loading with the regular network. I’m using VPN now.”
@PandaOfLagos wrote: “My Twitter is not loading again o. I’m tweeting via VPN now
Nigerian government ban crypto, ban Twitter, but cannot ban Ban-dits”
