Video Of Lai Mohammed Traveling To The US To Meet With Twitter

Date: 18-08-2021 9:22 am (3 years ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
- at 18-08-2021 09:22 AM (3 years ago)
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Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has been seen in a video traveling to US to meet Twitter executives, according to a report by Sahara Reporters. The video showed the minister and Olusegun Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, in a Delta Airline heading to the US.
 
The 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. Buhari's tweets, which many Nigerians found distasteful, had warned the Southeastern people of Nigeria against secession agenda, threatening to deal with them "in the language they understand". His comments referenced the Nigeria Civil War (1967-1970) in which an estimated 2 million South-Easterners died of starvation.
 
However, the Nigerian government claimed the ban was ultimately based on "a litany of problems with the social media platform in Nigeria, where misinformation and fake news spread through it have had real world violent consequences".
 
It also accused Twitter of threatening the corporate unity of Nigeria. In the video obtained by SaharaReporters, Mohammed is seen trying to disguise with a baseball cap.
A top source who disclosed the destination and the mission of the government team to SaharaReporters, said, "You can see Lai Mohammed trying to disguise with a face cap, he flew on seat 8A in the business class section of Delta Airline from Lagos to New York.
 
"He flew with his Special Assistant, Olusegun Adeyemi who took seat 8C in the business class." This 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, signaling the end of a policy widely condemned as an affront to freedom of expression.
 
The ban was condemned by Amnesty International, Swedish Embassy and the British and Canadian missions in Nigeria. Domestic organizations including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have challenged the ban in court.
 
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.
 
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. The firm made the calculations using a tool developed by internet governance watchdog organisation, Netblocks, and Internet Society, a US advocacy nonprofit.
 
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Posted: at 18-08-2021 09:22 AM (3 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- ficull at 18-08-2021 09:43 AM (3 years ago)
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Say it ain’t so. After you and your useless Oga don brag finish?
Posted: at 18-08-2021 09:43 AM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- constigoldo at 18-08-2021 10:41 AM (3 years ago)
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Simply telling us you have gone back to your vomit?
Posted: at 18-08-2021 10:41 AM (3 years ago) | Hero
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- marijuanaa at 18-08-2021 01:55 PM (3 years ago)
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lol
Posted: at 18-08-2021 01:55 PM (3 years ago) | Upcoming
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- OmoNobaUku at 18-08-2021 02:24 PM (3 years ago)
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Should Twitter staff not be the ones to travel to NGR to meet minister Lai in Abuja?
Posted: at 18-08-2021 02:24 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Femolastic at 18-08-2021 02:50 PM (3 years ago)
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Pride  Grin you see your life now  Angry Angry Angry

Na them they go after them now chai
Posted: at 18-08-2021 02:50 PM (3 years ago) | Newbie
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- kima77same at 18-08-2021 06:25 PM (3 years ago)
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THE DOGS HAVE RETURNED TO THEIR VOMIT.
Posted: at 18-08-2021 06:25 PM (3 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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