{"id":81819,"date":"2021-06-07T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=81819"},"modified":"2021-06-07T20:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:39:53","slug":"no-conditions-given-yet-for-lifting-twitter-ban-%e2%80%95-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/no-conditions-given-yet-for-lifting-twitter-ban-%e2%80%95-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"No Conditions Given Yet For Lifting Twitter Ban \u2015 FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1701935995906841935\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has stated that no conditions have been given yet for the lifting of the ban on Twitter operations in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This is according to a statement from the ministry issued on Monday titled: \u201cClarification of comments by the honorable minister of foreign affairs at his meeting with envoys.\u201dThe statement was signed by Ferdinand Nwonye, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and reads:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been drawn to misleading reports by several media outlets published today, Monday, 7th June 2021, in which the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Geoffrey Onyeama was misquoted as giving conditions for lifting the Twitter suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Honourable Minister after a meeting with some Heads of Diplomatic Missions resident in Nigeria was quoted to have said that \u2018Twitter\u2019s operations in Nigeria will be restored only if the platform can be used responsibly\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis statement by the Honourable Minister has been quoted out of context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to the publications, the Honourable Minister was speaking generally about the responsibilities that go with freedom of speech, stating that platforms that have the power to instantly disseminate information among billions of people have the added responsibility to exercise that power responsibly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Onyema said this on Monday in a meeting with ambassadors and high commissioners of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and the European Union over their comments on Nigeria\u2019s suspension of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting with the countries\u2019 envoys in Abuja, Onyeama said it is important for the federal government to discuss the suspension with the missions \u201cin our usual friendly way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said before the meeting continued behind closed doors that it is important for Nigeria to \u201cshare opinions\u201d with the missions \u201cout of respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of respect and in view of the relationship that we have with your countries, I felt it was absolutely right and appropriate to take your comments very seriously and to meet with you for us to, in our usual friendly way, discuss and share opinions with respect to that and clarify certain things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is for that reason that we have invited you here not \u201csummoned\u201d, invited to discuss some of these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has stated that no conditions have been given yet for the lifting of the ban on Twitter operations in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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