Indian Government says social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram may face ban if they fail to comply with the new intermediary guidelines for social media platforms. If these social media platforms fail to accept govt guidelines, they risk losing status as social media platforms and protections as intermediaries. Government can also…
In May 2021, The Oversight Board (Facebook’s Supreme Court) upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to bound then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account. However, it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension. Facebook’s normal penalties include removing the…
The President, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime has finally suspended, indefinitely, the operations of microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. This was announced Friday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Segun Adeyemi. Twitter was suspended in Nigeria because they…
Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has said Nigeria has already broken up spiritually. According to him, if some drastic measures are not taken, the break up will soon become evident physically. Mailafia stated this on Friday while featuring on a PUNCH Live interview programme. There have…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the National Broadcasting Commission, will immediately commence the process of licensing all social media operations in Nigeria. The NBC is the regulator of all radio and television stations in Nigeria. The minister announced this just as he said the Federal Government has also suspended micro-blogging platform, Twitter,…
Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has deactivated her Twitter account. She took the decision hours after the federal government announced a ban on the micro-blogging site. “I will be deactivating my Twitter account for now. “Long live Federal Republic of Nigeria,” she tweeted at 11:59pm on Friday. Minutes later, the account, which had over…
Reno Omokri has berated President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina for saying Nigeria needs a president with an iron fist. The presidential aide had in response to the controversy surrounding Buhari’s civil war threat said Nigeria needs a president with a strong fist but a loving bully. Buhari had issued the threat while condemning…
The National Youth Service Corps NYSC has debunked media reports claiming its DG, Brig. Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim had announced plans to mobilize corps members for war. In a recent interview with Channels TV, Ibrahim said corps members are part of the national defense policy of Nigeria and that where they are in a serious war, they can be trained…
A family of six narrowly escaped death following the collapse of a two-story building at Amawbia bypass, Awka South Local Government Area. It was gathered that the building owned by one Anene, totally collapsed on a residential building and a shop around 11:PM on Wednesday night, June 2. Amongst the six members of the family, four sustained…
Terrorists that Kidnapped the 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State last Sunday have raised the ransom for their freedom to N200m. The terrorists had initially, demanded the sum of N110m to set their victims who were mostly girls free, with a threat that…