Ban of Twitter in Nigeria
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Ban of Twitter in Nigeria
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From 5 June 2021 to 13 January 2022, the government of Nigeria officially banned Twitter, which restricted it from operating in the country. The ban occurred after Twitter deleted tweets made by, and temporarily suspended, the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, warning the southeastern people of Nigeria, predominantly Igbo people, of a potential repeat of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War due to the ongoing insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria. The Nigerian government claimed that the deletion of the
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Banning of Twitter in Nigeria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_of_Twitter_in_Nigeria
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2021-06-05T15:12:54Z
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2024-09-07T06:17:53Z
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