Nigeria approves N4.87bn to track citizens’ WhatsApp, Thuraya – Report

  Military tracking equioment; Thuraya Interception Solution to gulp N2.94 billion while WhatsApp Interception Solution will consume N1.93 billion).   The Nigerian National Assembly has approved the supplementary budget  for, among others, the equipment for tracking of Whatsapp and Thuraya in the country. Platforms Africa reports that the Nigerian Government has earlier banned Twitter, though talks are on-going on the possibility od lifting the ban. The president Muhhamadu Buhari’s government, in the just approved supplementary budget by the Senate, allocated N4 billion to tracking WHATSAPP and Thuraya, despite the upsurge…

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