Nigeria orders media to delete Twitter after banning site nationwide

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Nigeria orders media to delete Twitter after banning site nationwide

Issued on: 07/06/2021 - 17:01

Nigeria has directed all TV and radio stations to “suspend the patronage of Twitter immediately,” describing its use as unpatriotic, the country’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) said Monday.

The government of Africa’s most populous country said it was suspending the platform on Friday, two days after the US social media giant deleted a tweet from the president’s account for violating its rules.

“Broadcasting stations are hereby advised to de-install twitter handles and desist from using Twitter as a source... of information gathering for news,” NBC’s director Armstrong Idachaba wrote in a statement.

“It would be unpatriotic for any broadcaster in Nigeria to continue to patronise the suspended Twitter as a source of its information.”

More than 39 million Nigerians have a Twitter account, according to NOI polls, a public opinion and research organisation.

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Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210607-after-ban-nigeria-orders-broadcasters-to-delete-accounts-from-unpatriotic-twitter

[rownesheck]

1. We should do that here.

Add Facebook to the ban as well. In fact, throw in all social media platforms. It's making us collectively more stupid. Oh, and fix MTV. Bring back the music videos. No more reality TV bullshit, because that started us down this slippery slope.

I think I just miss the 1990s.

[msongs]

2. will I still get Nigerian Prince emails? patriotic ones of course

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/nigerian-prince-scams-still-rake-in-over-700000-dollars-a-year.html

[peppertree]

3. Reminds me of the time I 'inherited millions in unclaimed gold from a lost-lost Nigerian relative'

Like a dummy, I never claimed it. C'est la vie.