Twitter has confirmed that it has met with the federal government and discussed why the micro-blogging app was blocked in Nigeria and ways to resolve the matter.
This is coming as Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, yesterday, said that Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter, in a matter of days.
Reacting, Twitter official said that “We recently met with the Nigerian government to discuss why Twitter has been blocked and ways to resolve the matter,”
“Our aim is to chart a path forward to the restoration of Twitter for everyone in Nigeria. We look forward to ongoing discussions with the Nigerian government and seeing the service restored very soon.”
This followed the announcement by Mohammed, that the government would lift the ban on Twitter in a matter of days.
Mohammed who announced this after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed that the status of the conversation with the microblogging site has reached an amicable stage, with agreements reached in all areas except three.
The remaining three unresolved areas, according to him, are simply a matter of ‘when and not ‘if’ there would be an implementation of conditions discussed.
One of the pending issues according to the minister is in relation to the condition that Twitter establishes a legal presence in Nigeria, registered as a Nigerian company with an office address and an employee to serve as a country representative in the country.
While not turning down the proposition in totality, the micro-blogging site has maintained that the earliest it can establish a company is in 2022.
The federal government suspended Twitter’s operations in June after the social media platform deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari for breaching the site’s rules.
The Federal Government explained at the time that the suspension had no correlation with the deletion of the President’s tweets.
