Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, said that Twitter, the social media platform banned by the Federal Government of Nigerian in June 2021, has agreed to conditions laid out by the government to lift the ban.
Speaking during an interview with Channels
Television on Sunday, Nov. 28, Keyamo said the committee set up by the Federal
Government to review the operations of Twitter has made significant progress.
Keyamo, who is also a member of the committee, said:
"The reason the president took that step is to recalibrate our
relationship with Twitter and not to drive them away from our country.
"That recalibration, we have started it and the
President graciously added me to the committee.
"We also set up a technical committee to interface
with Twitter and come up with a lot of conditions for them to fulfill for us to
lift the suspension.
"It was Twitter that reached out to the Federal
Government to say they want to know what and what they can do to straighten up
the relationship with the Federal Government and so, we have gone far but I may
not, at this forum, let out a lot but we gave them a lot of conditions and they
have agreed to all the conditions."
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