Nigeria is set to lift a ban on Twitter starting Jan. 13, after the social media giant agreed to certain conditions to resume operations.
Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general of the countryâs National Information Technology Development Agency said that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had given approval to lift the suspension.
âTwitter has agreed to act with a respectful acknowledgement of Nigerian laws and the national culture and history on which such legislation has been built,â Abdullahi said in a statement. âTherefore, the [federal government] lifts the suspension of the Twitter operations in Nigeria from midnight of 13th January 2022.â