Two days after Twitter removed a post of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian government said that it had indefinitely suspended the micro-blogging platform's activities in the country. The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture of Nigeria said that it had taken action because of activities "that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence". https://twitter.com/FMICNigeria/status/1400843062641717249 In a series of tweets, the official account of Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Information and Culture said, "The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence." According to Reuters tests in Lagos and Abuja, Twitter's website was inaccessible in Nigeria on some mobile carriers, while its app and website worked on others, as of the early hours of Saturday. On Wednesday, the social media giant removed a post by Buhari which threatened punishment for regional secessionists who have been blamed for attacks on government buildings, according to another report by Reuters. The Reuters report said Buhari's tweet, referred to the 1967-70 civil war in the south eastern Biafra region of Nigeria that killed 1 million people. Twitter took it down because it violated its "abusive behaviour" policy leading to a 12-hour suspension of Buhari's account. The report said, Buhari, who in the Nigerian army against the secessionists and was the…
