{"id":81867,"date":"2021-06-08T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=81867"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:24:10","slug":"opan-seeks-immediate-lifting-of-twitter-ban-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/opan-seeks-immediate-lifting-of-twitter-ban-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"OPAN Seeks Immediate Lifting Of Twitter Ban In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Online Publishers of Nigeria (OPAN), Nigeria\u2019s premier association of new media and online new publishers has urged the federal government to immediately reverse the ban on Twitter operations in the country and stop infringing on the rights of citizens to freely express themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by Austyn Ogannah, President and Daniel Elombah, General Secretary, OPAN said \u201cthe reasons adduced for the suspension or ban of Twitter have remained unconvincing because the federal government failed to exhaust other channels of communication with the social media giant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe action of the Federal Government amounts to killing an ant with a sledge hammer, and has given Nigeria a very bad image in the eyes of the international community\u201d, OPAN said in a statement issued on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>OPAN further decried the clandestine effort to gag social media voices in Nigeria and called on the Federal Government to \u201cexercise restraints in dealing with issues that affect the youths, freedom of expression, media freedom, and those actions that could directly or indirectly widen the unemployment gap in the country\u201d, the statement added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/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 Online Publishers of Nigeria (OPAN), Nigeria\u2019s premier association of new media and online new publishers has urged the federal government to immediately reverse 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":81868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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