Day: June 5, 2021

Use Twitter, Go to Jail, Nigeria tells Violators of Ban

Aliyu Aliyu

  Country’s Justice Minister Orders prosecution of Twitter ban violators as country’s bickering with microblogging degenerate   Nigeria has threatened prosecution, which could lead to jail terms, for any of hundreds of thousands of Twitter users in the country who violates the suspension it slammed on the microblogging site. Apparently to show the Government’s seriousness, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), Platforms Africa reports, ordered the prosecution of offenders of the Nigerian Government ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria.   READ ALSO: Outrage as…

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Over 1,000 by-pass Nigeria’s Twitter Ban, Face Scam, Viruses threats

Adeola Yusuf

  “If you aren’t paying for the service, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. You will likely be sold to clients including government.” Here is why bank accounts or data of government’s Twitter ban by-passers may be at great risk     Over 1, 000 Nigerians have engaged alternative sources including the services VPN providers to access Twitter and other social media networks 24 hours after the country suspended Twitter’s operations.   READ ALSO: Millions blocked as Twitter Operations Officially Grounded In Nigeria Why we Suspended Twitter’s Operations in…

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Nigeria’s ex-Rep at OPEC, Dan Etete, Tasks Biden on Global Peace, Security

Wonuola Olujobi

    Former Representative of Nigeria at Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Chief Dan Etete, has called on President Joe Biden of the United States of America to use his position as the leader of the most powerful country in the world to steer the world away from disaster by bringing hope, love and unity to the poor, homeless, hungry and traumatized people as well as the rich and affluent in the society. In a statement sent to Platforms Africa, the former Minister of Petroleum Resources noted that President…

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Millions blocked as Twitter Operations Officially Grounded In Nigeria

Damilola Olonade

Step by step process of how some Nigerians are already by-passing the government’s suspension of Twitter through VPN   Popular microblogging platform, Twitter, has officially stopped its operation in Federal Republic of Nigeria. Platforms  Africa reports that Twitter is the second most used social media network after facebook in Nigeria where millions of people in the country interact with others across other countries of the world. This development is coming hours after Federal Government announced the suspension of Twitter in a recent statement signed by Lai Mohammed.   READ ALSO:…

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