{"id":84911,"date":"2021-08-18T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=84911"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:57:24","slug":"twitter-ban-lai-mohammed-sneaks-out-of-nigeria-to-mend-fence-with-company-executives-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/twitter-ban-lai-mohammed-sneaks-out-of-nigeria-to-mend-fence-with-company-executives-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ban: Lai Mohammed sneaks out of Nigeria to mend fence with company executives in US\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1708431555869010954\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has travelled to the US to meet with top executives of popular microblogging site, Twitter.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nPointblanknews.com gathered that both the minister and the\u00a0Special Assistant to the President (Media),\u00a0 Olusegun Adeyemi, on Tuesday left for the US aboard a Delta Airline.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Muhammadu Buhari-led government on June 5, 2021 indefinitely banned Twitter, restricting it from operating in Nigeria after the social media platform deleted tweets posted by Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari\u2019s tweets, which many Nigerians found distasteful, had warned the Southeastern people of Nigeria against secession agenda, threatening to deal with them \u201cin the language they understand\u201d. His comments referenced the Nigeria Civil War (1967-1970) in which an estimated 2 million South-Easterners died of starvation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHowever, the Nigerian government claimed the ban was ultimately based on \u201ca litany of problems with the social media platform in Nigeria, where misinformation and fake news spread through it have had real world violent consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It also accused Twitter of threatening the corporate unity of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In the video obtained by an online media, Mohammed is seen trying to disguise with a baseball cap.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThis comes after a statement by Mohammed last Wednesday that Nigeria would soon lift its ban on Twitter after resolving some of its differences with the social media platform, signalling the end of a policy widely condemned as an affront to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was condemned by Amnesty International, Swedish Embassy and the British and Canadian missions in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic organisations including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have challenged the ban in court.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, though many Nigerians have bypassed the ban by using Virtual Private Network (VPN), the already battered economy of the country loses a fortune every day to the ban.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, as at August 6, British firm, Top10VPN estimated that the ban had affected around 104.4 million internet users in the country, and cost the country around $366.9 million. 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